Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date June 10, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesEvolution Tagged , __tedited, DNA code, genes, junk DNA, Richard Dawkins, scientific advance, selfish genes, simulations Richard Dawkins’s Publisher Has a Cute Idea, but Biomorphs Appeal More as Nostalgia than Science David Klinghoffer June 10, 2016 Computational Sciences, Evolution 4 The biomorphs are "digital animals...grounded in 1970s assumptions," long outdated. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date June 7, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & MindTechnology Tagged , __tedited, algorithms, artificial general intelligence, computational power, expertise, human intelligence, human mind, intelligence, machine intelligence, meaninglessness, Overruling Intelligence, Watson Watson’s Goof — What We Should Really Fear from AI Brendan Dixon June 7, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology 8 It was a telling response, revealing the idiot inside the savant. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date May 20, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, brain processes, computational reductionism, Darwinian algorithm, human intelligence, human mind, hype, machine metaphor, meat machines, mimicry, Overruling Intelligence No, Your Brain Isn’t a Three-Pound Meat Computer Brendan Dixon May 20, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 5 AI machines are more a form of mimicry than anything even approaching intelligence. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date April 26, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesIntelligent DesignScientific Reasoning Tagged , __tedited, agency, alien enlightenment, alien intelligence, argument, causality, creationism, human exceptionalism, human intelligence, inference to the best explanation, intelligence, intelligent design, misrepresentation, Neil deGrasse Tyson, probabilities, PZ Myers, scientific reasoning, simulation theory, testability Neil deGrasse Tyson Says Chances of Intelligently Designed Universe “May Be Very High” David Klinghoffer April 26, 2016 Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design, Scientific Reasoning 4 But of course he was referring to the odds that the universe is an artificial computer simulation by advanced aliens. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date April 21, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesIntelligent Design Tagged , __tedited, AI, anti-human exceptionalism, computer simulations, deep learning, Elon Musk, Futurism, Go (game), heuristic, human intelligence, Internet, machine learning, Michio Kaku, Neural Networks, self-awareness, sentience, Stephen Hawking, superintelligence, unpredictability How Likely Is a "Terminator" Future? Brendan Dixon April 21, 2016 Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design 6 Celebrity scientist Michio Kaku is the latest to throw his support behind the "Terminator is coming" mantra. Read More ›
Type post Author Winston Ewert Date April 18, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesEvolution Tagged , __k-review, Research, science Haarsma’s Pykaryotes — Another Failed Evolution Simulation Winston Ewert April 18, 2016 Computational Sciences, Evolution 1 If Professor Haarsma's name sounds familiar that may be because he is the husband of BioLogos president Deborah Haarsma. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date April 3, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Science More on "Intelligent Design Without a Designer" Brendan Dixon April 3, 2016 Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design 1 A reader, Eric, writes to ask about my post "Nature 'Learns' to Create Complexity? Think Again." Read More ›
Type post Date March 29, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesEvolution Tagged , __k-review, Nature, Science, Views Merging Natural Selection with Learning Theory Yields a New and Improved Evolution; or Does It? Science and Culture March 29, 2016 Computational Sciences, Evolution 1 Perhaps we could call it neo-neo-Darwinism. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date March 28, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , __k-review, Science, Views Nature “Learns” to Create Complexity? Think Again Brendan Dixon March 28, 2016 Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design 1 An article in the print edition of New Scientist is titled provocatively: "Intelligent design without a designer." Read More ›
Type post Author Winston Ewert Date March 23, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesEvolution Tagged , __k-review, science, Views Ev Ever Again — Eying an Evolutionary Simulation Winston Ewert March 23, 2016 Computational Sciences, Evolution 1 Imagine coming across a dubious salesman with an allegedly magic swimming pool. He claims that the pool fills itself with water. Read More ›
