Tag: totalitarianism
New from Science Uprising — Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and the Human Difference
Creativity, not mere copying or following commands, entails thinking “outside the box.” That’s how it can surprise us with genuine novelty.
John West: C. S. Lewis and the “Human Fallibility of Science”
The spirt or psychology of the day gives us the science we wished for. This makes it highly fallible, and potentially dangerous.
Stephen Meyer: Totalitarian Dystopias and the God Hypothesis
The insight is timely, given the two-year anniversary of lockdowns that we’ve recently observed.
Royal Society: Don’t Censor Misinformation; It Makes Things Worse
While others demand crackdowns on “fake news,” the Society reminds us that the history of science is one of error correction.
Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No
Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws.