Tag: Noam Chomsky
Why Computers Will Likely Never Perform Abductive Inferences
If you are going to get a computer to achieve anything like understanding in some subject area, it needs a lot of knowledge.
Michael Ruse on Purpose: The Flies in the Ointment
Ruse’s chronological snobbery might be forgiven if the claims he makes for Darwinism can be unequivocally substantiated.
A Positive, Useful Discussion of Human Exceptionalism … On the Internet? Yes!
Not all humans can be concert pianists. Some humans can’t speak or get out of a wheelchair or remember their daughter’s name anymore. Here we enter into moral and ethical issues.
As a Critic of Intelligent Design, Nathan Lents Fails to Connect
Initially, I was pleased to find someone who might be an interesting new participant in the evolution debate.
Evolution and the Insensitive Sandwich
David Brooks of the New York Times has taken a lot razzing for a column about social class signifiers and how they serve to insulate the upper middle class.