Tag: Michael Egnor
Two Schemes to Defeat the Second Law
I also have a scheme that I believe can defeat the generalized second law. My scheme is called “intelligence.”
Science Uprising — An Edgy New Video Series, Coming June 3
The old have failed the young. Hate-driven shootings in schools and houses of worship, rising suicide and addiction rates — these are the most dramatic indications.
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.
Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”
The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism.
MIT’s Rizwan Virk on Simulation Theory, AKA Intelligent Design
Egnor: “If we are living in a computer simulation, we couldn’t think to ask the question.”