3+ hour, 48+ min ago  (43+ words) mindmatters. ai 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....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (32+ words) mindmatters. ai 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....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago  (32+ words) mindmatters. ai 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....

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (26+ words) mindmatters. ai Our brain's dopamine system is exploited by the non-deterministic output of Gen AI, just as with social media and slot machines....

2+ day, 11+ hour ago  (284+ words) I've been a software developer for over 30 years. I love the craft of well-written software. A quest for high quality, clean architecture, and business value has defined my career. Employers have consistently promoted me to their highest senior developer level....

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (652+ words) Last month at Popular Mechanics, Hanna Webster who has a bachelor's degree in neuroscience, took a look at Michael Egnor's and my recent book, The Immortal Mind: (2025). She found our non-materialist approach to the human mind a bridge too far…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago  (633+ words) Recently, evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins started talking to Anthropic's chatbot Claude about his work, including a novel, and shared the results at Unherd: I gave Claude the text of a novel I am writing. He took a few seconds to…...

1+ week, 19+ hour ago  (753+ words) Michael Egnor and I have been working on a book on how near-death experiences " which are often life-changing " became a topic in medical science, with studies, journal articles, and such devoted to them. One change I have noticed recently is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (491+ words) When I got a screener link to Story of Everything (Sypher Studios 2026) and sat down to watch it, I felt the fear that Jonathan Witt admits to: " " the film would bog down in scientific and philosophical minutiae." Ah yes, The…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago  (1197+ words) After a 911 call'about'a heated argument, officers'rushed'to an apartment.'When no one answers'their knock, they enter'through the unlocked door.'From the bedroom came chatter; one officer clearly heard a voice say, "Don't shoot, Frank, don't shoot," followed by two loud shots....