Tag: machines
A Watch on a Heath — But What a Watch!
Recently I had the opportunity to see Prague’s famed astronomical clock, the oldest still-working astronomical clock in the world. It is truly phenomenal.
Robert Marks: Why “Edmond de Belamy” Is Bunk
It has to do with the difference between interpolation and extrapolation.
On Book Tour, Marcos Eberlin Sparks Thought About the ID Movement
During the Q&A, an attendee asked why intelligent design proponents don’t just come out and explicitly say the designer is God.
Artificial Intelligence as a “Magic Act”
The error is not completely different from imagining that natural selection really can do what creative intelligence — foresight! — can do.
In Search of Self-Replicating Clocks
That Darwinism seems even superficially plausible depends completely on the ability of living things to reproduce themselves without significant degradation.