Tag: philosophy
Dune Finds Entertainment in Eugenics
The world-building is fantastic, but the historical background to the novels is also instructive.
Evolutionary Biologist Richard Sternberg: Why I’m a Platonist
The evolutionary turns that life has taken, he says, “ultimately have their source in an informational realm that is outside space and time.”
Meyer, Hedin, Dembski, Luskin Shine in World Magazine Book of the Year Awards
Dr. Meyer isn’t merely tearing down a competing, nihilistic picture of reality, but instead revealing the positive, meaningful one toward which science increasingly directs our attention.
Astronomer: We Can’t Just Assume Countless Earths Out There
The Copernican Principle has been misused to imply that Earth is somehow insignificant. That is a philosophical attitude, unrelated to the science.
Harvard U Press Computer Science Author Gives AI a Reality Check
The key missing ingredient in machine intelligence is the ability to appreciate context, do analysis, and make appropriate inferences.