Tag: technology
Transhumanist Claims Aside, Enhancing Human Intelligence Isn’t on the Horizon
First of all, human memory is not computer storage.
A Transhumanist Asks, "Why Not Be Superheroes?"
It’s worth considering. With regard to human enhancement, where should the line be drawn?
Machines Will Always Be Things, Never "Persons"
Peter Singer claims that the brain is just a computer, and so if an AI machine were ever developed, it could be considered a person too.
In Biology as in Technology, Similarities Do Not Prove the Absence of Intelligent Design
The similarities between the history of life and the history of technology run deep.
Reading David Chalmers on the Coming "Singularity"
The New York University philosopher is well known for critiquing the scientific materialist’s vision of explaining, someday, the phenomenon of conscious experience in purely material terms.