Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date August 8, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __edited, __tedited, artificial intelligence, Erik Larson, human intelligence, Turing test What Does It Mean to Be Intelligent? Brendan Dixon August 8, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 7 Despite headlines, no machine has yet come close to passing a serious Turing Test. Web security relies on this fact. Read More ›
Type post Author Brendan Dixon Date August 2, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & MindTechnology Tagged , __edited, __tedited, artificial intelligence, autonomy, biases, computational power, computer programming, human exceptionalism, scalability, unintended consequences Artificial Intelligence and Its Limits Brendan Dixon August 2, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology 7 AI is neither the emergence of another intelligence, nor one we should allow to wander on its own without human oversight. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date August 1, 2016 CategoriesFaith & ScienceNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, culpability, free will, Jerry Coyne, justice, metaphysics, moral agency, moral reasoning Jerry Coyne: “Reason Is No Different from a Kick” Michael Egnor August 1, 2016 Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 3 The boundary between free will denial and impairment of reality-testing is difficult to discern. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date August 1, 2016 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, agency, causation, determinism, free will, methodological materialism, mind, natural causes, probabilities Causation and the Free Will Debate Michael Egnor August 1, 2016 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 4 Consider the analogy of playing a lottery. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 28, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsLegal Science (jurisprudence)Neuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __k-review, Nation, News Without Free Will There Is No Justice Michael Egnor July 28, 2016 Bioethics, Legal Science (jurisprudence), Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 1 Of course Manson acolyte Leslie Van Houten chose to kill, just as millions of law-abiding people choose not to kill. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 27, 2016 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, abstract thought, determinism, free will, immaterial mind, immaterial powers, intellect, John Searle, naturalism More on John Searle and Free Will Michael Egnor July 27, 2016 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 4 A reader cites Searle's books Rationality in Action and Freedom and Neurobiology, contending that he is in fact a defender of free will. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 21, 2016 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, computational reductionism, determinism, empiricism, free will, human mind, immaterial reality, John Searle, metaphysics, mind-brain problem, self-refutation, suppressed evidence John Searle on Free Will Michael Egnor July 21, 2016 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 5 Modern philosophy of mind is a focused effort to deny human exceptionalism. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 20, 2016 CategoriesNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, conscious experience, Jerry Coyne, meaning, self-consciousness, thoughts Atheist Philosopher Thinks “We Never Have Direct Access To Our Thoughts” Michael Egnor July 20, 2016 Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 4 Materialist theories of the mind border on the insane. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 19, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thought, animal intelligence, grammar, human intelligence, language, learning, signals Here’s How We Could Know if Animals Use Language Michael Egnor July 19, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind 4 Perhaps, some critics will argue, animals have language that we haven't detected. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date July 18, 2016 CategoriesLinguisticsNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, animal communication, animal languages, bird song, bird vocalizations, complex structures, complexity, designators, finches, functional complexity, functional specificity, grammar, human language, language, metaphysical, Nature, signal Are Birdsongs Language? Michael Egnor July 18, 2016 Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 7 Atheist mathematician Jeff Shallit insists that animals have language. Read More ›
