A misguided article in Popular Mechanics gave neurosurgeon Michael Egnor a chance to shed light on a unique fact about people with split brains here.
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Many graduating students may just want a simpler life where they can work, afford to live, and enter life-giving relationships.
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If organoid computing succeeds, the next generation of computers may need both software updates and daily feedings.
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The mid-/late-1960s was a watershed in Sci-Fi movies, with Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey being released two years after The Fantastic Voyage.
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About last week’s MicroSofty: Think of the probability issue as just a distraction…
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In effect, therefore, this book is a call for a return to the medieval vision of a rational God who created rational creatures equipped to discover the verities of nature. In other words, to do science.
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Science Fiction writers have over the past 100-plus years been warning us about the horrors of a dystopian future, but now we are reaching the point where such Sci-Fi stories are now becoming ‘Faction’.
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Here are a dozen tips for detecting fake and misleading articles about artificial intelligence.
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Whenever David talks about Monica loving him, he’s always bringing up the things she’ll do for him, not what he can do for her.
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Accepting that we are merely flesh marionettes dancing to the strings pulled by our various biological processes would doom human decency.
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Some of the theories of animal mind are interesting but no one really has any idea how consciousness originated.
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The new law would require telephone service providers to “at a minimum, obtain and retain the name, physical address, government issued identification number, and an alternate telephone number of any new and renewing customer before granting access to its services.”
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In a Godless universe, love, self-sacrifice, friendship, relationships, pro-creation, art and literature are nothing more than relatively subjective illusions to pass the time and avoid boredom with no ultimate purpose or objective meaning.
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Last week’s puzzle, like several others, is easy to solve if we use inclusive thinking about relationships.
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On Saturday, I looked at Matt Johnson’s thoughts on George Orwell’s vital but comparatively unknown 1946 essay, “The Prevention of Literature.” Orwell, famous for Animal Farm (1945) and Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), wanted to “make political writing into an art.” He was well aware that most competitors for public attention simply wanted to make political writing a reliable form of mass brainwashing. He hoped to find a public that sought an alternative. He published “Prevention” (longish, at 5500 words) in Polemic, a short-lived British intellectual magazine (1945–47), which featured work by such notables as Henry Miller, Bertrand Russell, A. J. Ayer, and Dylan Thomas. Intellectual freedom as “violence” Intellectual freedom, as we have always been told, is only ever one generation Read More ›
Automated writing leads to a decline in intellectual skills for the same reasons as automated walking would lead to a decline in motor skills.
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David mentions that the first thing he remembered seeing was a bird with outstretched feathers, but it turns out that this initial visual was not a bird at all but a man with feather-like symbols beneath his feet.
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Companies charge their customers enough money for them to pay their suppliers, and for those suppliers to pay their suppliers but this isn’t happening in AI.
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Matthew Loftus has a new book coming out on this topic later in 2026 called Resisting Therapy Culture: The Dangers of Pop Psychology and How the Church Can Respond.
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Our brain’s dopamine system is exploited by the non-deterministic output of GenAI, just as with social media and slot machines.
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