elephant Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date February 29, 2020 CategoriesBioethicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __edited, animal personhood, animal rights, animal welfare, Bronx Zoo, chimpanzees, Court of Appeals, elephant, Eugene M. Fahey, habeas corpus, Happy, judge, Nonhuman Rights Project, sentience Judge Wishes She Could Rule Elephant a “Person” Wesley J. Smith February 29, 2020 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism 4 This kind of thinking drives me nuts. First, we don’t treat animals as mere things or as being akin to inanimate objects. Read More ›
viirsdayhurricane-1 Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date April 22, 2019 CategoriesBioethicsHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, Amazon, consciousness, earth, environmentalism, Ferris Jabr, Gaia Theory, humanity, Lake Erie, life, Mars, misanthropy, morality, mysticism, nature rights, neo-paganism, New York Times, organisms, religion, rivers, sentience, Toledo The Earth: It’s Alive! It’s Alive! Wesley J. Smith April 22, 2019 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism 4 Even James Lovelock, who created Gaia Theory, now worries that environmentalism has become a religion. 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 ›
