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Interview: John Lennox Answers Questions about Artificial Intelligence in 2084

Lennox, the beloved Oxford mathematician, asks, “What will the year 2084 hold for you — for your friends, for your family, and for our society?" Read More ›
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Neuroscientist: Neuroscience “Is a Failure”

“How many other scientific disciplines have utterly failed to explain the salient phenomenon of the system they study?” I can think of one. Read More ›
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Watch: Londoners Ponder the Existence of a Soul

As a young Muslim physician suggests, materialism asks us to deny the evidence of our near-universal, dualist experience. Read More ›
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Dr. Geoffrey Simmons on Human Design — and Re-Creating It in Robots

Will robots ever experience empathy or other feelings, or develop a genuine sense of humor? Read More ›
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Jay Richards at COSM Talks Ray Kurzweil and Strong AI

Is the “singularity” coming, as Kurzweil argues there and elsewhere, when machines equal and then quickly surpass human intelligence? Read More ›
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Remember This: Memory Requires Intelligent Design

The brain assists the organization and recall of thoughts by segmenting them and associating them with stimuli. But who is doing the thinking? Read More ›
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Computer Engineer Robert J. Marks Discusses the Perils and Promise of AI

Marks concedes that a computer code can surprise us — as, for example, when playing the game Go. Read More ›
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Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer” 

Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms. Read More ›

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