Tag: neuroscience
Science Uprising, Episode 2: Mind Denial
“We are robots made out of meat, which is what I’m going to try to convince you of today.” So says evolutionist Jerry Coyne.
Robert Marks: Why “Edmond de Belamy” Is Bunk
It has to do with the difference between interpolation and extrapolation.
More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”
Whether your dog can philosophize is not a puzzle you need to look to the Oxford English Dictionary to resolve.
Egnor Imagines: Professor Terminated; Replaced by Bonobo
“The search committee interviewed several apes, three mules, and a tomato plant.”
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.