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How microservices enhance application modularity
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Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution

The fundamental problem with this analysis is that sexual reproduction does not make anything modular. Read More ›
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Mind Over Matter: Darwin, AI, and the Future of Reason

If our minds are the product of a blind and aimless process, what reason do we have to believe what we think? Read More ›
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Who Coined the Phrase “the Magician’s Twin”? The Pitfalls of Relying on AI for Your Facts

Many of the chatbots have told me that C. S. Lewis coined the phrase. (Wrong.) When pressed, at least one chatbot insisted it was English author A. N. Wilson. Read More ›
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Sweeping Europe, a Pagan Religion Has Daggers Out for This Technology

A religion that sees humans as merely “an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet” would consider these unnecessary deaths hardly worth noticing. Read More ›
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On Minds and Machines, Richard Dawkins’s Curious Inconsistency

If we encounter far more advanced informational technology in living organisms, isn’t the same intuition at least worth considering? Read More ›
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Designed for Destruction? A Surgeon’s Finger on the Trigger

In this agonized season, Skiff read everything he could get his hands on, searching for meaning somewhere. Read More ›
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Is Government’s Relationship with Science “Crumbling”?

The people who do not trust science today would probably like to be able to. And the people who do trust it may simply be unaware of the problems. Read More ›
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Covert Consciousness Poses Bioethical Dilemmas

A great deal of work is needed in clinical studies to provide a large enough database to help guide treatment decisions. Read More ›
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A Note on the “Compensation” Argument

This debate is not really too complicated for the layman to understand, though it seems to be too simple for many scientists. Read More ›
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“Accelerating” Toward a Post-Human Future, and Loving It

There is a lot of AI Apocalypse Now! and AI Utopia Soon! in the news these days. Read More ›

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