Tag: Mind and Technology
Alan Turing and the New Emergentists
The acclaimed Alan Turing biographical film The Imitation Game is up for multiple Oscars on Sunday.
Bill Gates Joins Stephen Hawking in Fears of a Coming Threat from "Superintelligence"
Superintelligence is the currently trending idea of soon-to-come super-smart robots, the latest iteration of the decades-old dream of Artificial Intelligence.
Aristotle on the Immateriality of Intellect and Will
This argument of the peripatetic pagan became a cornerstone of the Christian, Jewish, and Islamic understanding of the mental powers of the soul.
Your Computer Doesn’t Know Anything
It is remarkable how much damage has been done to our understanding of our world by materialist metaphysics.
A Plea for Conceptual Hygiene in Neuroscience
We can make no real progress in understanding the mind while we hold to concepts that are nonsense.