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Pre-Order Immortality Now! (It’s Only 8 Years Away, Apparently)

Would living forever in a utopian technological society really be as great as the transhumanists insist?  Read More ›
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Robot Evolution? How the Trick Is Done

Some evolutionists still don’t get it. You can’t design something for a purpose and call it Darwinism. Read More ›
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Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex

Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging. Read More ›
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No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›
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Robert J. Marks on Why AI Won’t Destroy the World, or Save It

Will robots or other computers ever become so fast and powerful that they become conscious, creative, and free? Read More ›
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Xenobots: Researchers Claim to Have Created New Form of Biological Self-Replication

Xenobots are artificially interconnected biological tissues whose arrangements are determined by some algorithm. Read More ›
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Where and What Is Consciousness?

If humans are just “robots made of meat,” then the seat of consciousness ought to be locatable somewhere in the brain. Read More ›
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Oh-So-Close to Self-Replication

All that is left is to add a factory to the Cornell device so it can produce for itself the molecubes that humans keep building and feeding them. Read More ›
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Futuristic Evolution by AI — The Darwin Connection

To evolutionists, whatever oversight humans achieved must have evolved, and will continue to evolve in our creations. Read More ›
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Fruitful Science: The Marvel of a Seed

If engineers could make something like a seed, it would be absolutely phenomenal. Then, imagine getting the object to last for thousands of years and still work. Read More ›

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