monkey-in-mirror Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date November 3, 2024 CategoriesBioethicsMedicine Tagged , animals, bioethicists, brains, doctors, experts, human life, humans, Journal of Medical Ethics, lawyers, organoids, philosophers, rats, Research, speciesism, unborn humans We Can’t Let “Experts” Decide the Morality of Making “Humanized Animals” Wesley J. Smith November 3, 2024 Bioethics, Medicine 7 Bioethics is a utilitarianish social-political movement whose primary advocates are usually philosophers, lawyers, and/or doctors. Read More ›
Middle-earth Type post Author Peter Biles Date November 2, 2024 CategoriesArtsBioethicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , algorithms, books, cathedrals, ChatGPT, creativity, human beings, intelligence, large language models, materialism, music, music theory, nature, Oxford University, sentience, soul, The Lord of the Rings, theists, Turing test, War and Peace Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass? Peter Biles November 2, 2024 Arts, Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind 3 Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›
Cynognathus Type post Author Günter Bechly Date November 1, 2024 CategoriesEvolutionPaleontology Tagged , convergent evolution, cynodonts, Early Jurassic, evolutionary icons, Fossil Friday (series), Gondwana, Great Britain, Jonathan Wells, mammals, reptiles, South America, University of Bristol Fossil Friday: New Fossil Evidence Challenges Another Icon of Evolution Günter Bechly November 1, 2024 Evolution, Paleontology 5 This would have been very interesting news to my friend and colleague Jonathan Wells, who had described many such cases in his ground-breaking books. Read More ›
