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June 6, 2018

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Ethics
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Jay Richards: Kissinger on the New World of Artificial Intelligence

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June 6, 2018

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AI is about statistical processing, not budding consciousness. Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

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June 5, 2018

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Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
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New Discovery Institute Center to Explore Threat, Promise, Limits of AI; Seattle Launch on July 11

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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The Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence will focus on the profound concerns stirred by the mystery of minds. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
May 28, 2018

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Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, __cedited, artificial intelligence, Bible, civilization, contagion, Europe, Henry Kissinger, machines, metal, paper, Politics, printing press, Reformation, religion, René Girard, silicon, Spain, The Atlantic, thought, Wesley Smith}

Kissinger and Girard on Artificial Intelligence

_{Michael Egnor
May 28, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Any genuine understanding of the impact AI will have (and is having) on humanity must begin with Girard. Read More ›

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Bruce Chapman

Date
May 26, 2018

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Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __cedited, algorithms, artificial intelligence, athens, Big Data, C.S. Lewis, Darwinism, democracy, Homo Deus, Israel, Marxism, Politics, privacy, religion, scientism, Socrates, Yuval Noah Harari}

From Darwinism to Dataism: Will We Lose Democracy to Techno-Religion?

_{Bruce Chapman
May 26, 2018

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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When tyranny comes it often is introduced as some improvement, or as the correction of some perceived problem. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 18, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
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, __cedited, artificial intelligence, cognition, computation, computers, Enlightenment, Henry Kissinger, human beings, machines, money, personhood, Pinocchio, The Atlantic, toaster, transhumanism}

Kissinger: A.I. Machines Won’t “Think”

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May 18, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Transhumanists and other anti-human exceptionalists have been arguing of late that artificial-intelligence machines are destined to become so sophisticated that they will become “self-aware.” Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

Date
May 9, 2018

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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __cedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, Boston Review, Case Western Reserve University, creationism, David Klinghoffer, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Neo-Darwinism, patients, Paul Nelson, Royal Society, science denial, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago, William A. Dembski, Young Earth Creationists}

Next Time I Need a Therapist, I’m Staying Away from Jeremy P. Shapiro

_{David Klinghoffer
May 9, 2018

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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For remarkable blindness to his own “thinking errors,” Dr. Shapiro gets a prize. Read More ›

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Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
April 16, 2018

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Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physics
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Don’t Fear the Robots; Fear the Robot Philosophers

_{Jay W. Richards
April 16, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physics

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Believe it or not, many officially smart people think that (1) we are just computers made of meat, (2) computers will soon become conscious, or (3) both. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 11, 2018

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, __cedited, Aristotle, cosmic fine-tuning, Hungary, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Egnor, multiverse, neuroscience, Philip Goff, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, theism, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Egnor: Two Weaknesses of Agentive Cosmopsychism

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April 11, 2018

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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There are a limited number of explanations available for how cosmic fine-tuning came to be. Actually, there are three. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 15, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __nedited, African Americans, algorithms, artificial intelligence, behavior, Civil War, consciousness, empathy, endowed by their creator, feelings, human beings, human rights, programming, Psychology Today, Racism, rights, robots, slavery, stories, Thomas Jefferson}

Rights Are Not about “Feelings”

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March 15, 2018

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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Thomas Hills argues that we will accord human-style rights to robots because we will come to empathize with them. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 24, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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, __cedited, “consensus science”, altruism, assumptions, bias, Chronicle of Higher Education, David Hume, Harvard University, Lord Kelvin, objectivity, science, Steven Pinker, subjectivity, thermodynamics}

Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”

_{Richard Weikart
February 24, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›