Tag: Stephen Hawking
The Difference Between Humans and Machines
Why do news headlines continually suggest that AI is practically human already, and soon will become fully human?
New Book from Computer Engineer Robert J. Marks: You Are NOT Computable
Just a few days ago a Google engineer revealed that an AI chatbot disclosed to him that it had “come to life” and has a “soul.”
How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind
Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans.
C. S. Lewis Unmasks the Pretensions of SETI
How can METI / SETI advocates repudiate intelligent design while depending on the design inference for their work?
Why Words Matter: Sense and Nonsense in Science
One might, with Darwin, theorize that the development of the biosphere was simply down to that empirically unattested variant of chance, “natural selection.”