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Hotter water? Neuroscientist Christof Koch plans to study NDEs
1+ hour, 38+ min ago (694+ words) Prominent Allen Institute neuroscientist Christof Koch hit the news again recently, suggesting that the brain does not create consciousness. That is very much at odds with the current neuroscience perspective, set out in a journal article by J. L. Saver and J. Rabin…...
Searching for Any World at All in the Many-Worlds Interpretation
21+ hour, 43+ min ago (328+ words) This article by philosopher of science Bruce Gordon is republished from Science and Culture Today. The frequently thought-provoking series Closer to Truth, created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, recently released an interview clip with the Oxford physicist Chiara Marletto....
Does AI Really Threaten Your Job? That Depends On Your Job
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (615+ words) Our director, computer engineering prof Robert J. Marks, was a guest last Monday on the Humanize Today podcast, hosted by Wesley J. Smith, talking about the benefits and perils of AI. As Smith notes, he has worked on artificial intelligence for more…...
Big Tech Data Centers Are the New Big Hate
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (677+ words) Dwarfing climate change, it seems. At the Spectator (US edition), Robert Bryce puts some numbers to the hostility: I’ve been a reporter for four decades. And over the past 16 years, I have been closely tracking the global backlash against Big…...
Neuroscientists Who Don’t Endorse Materialism Face Career Ruin
3+ day, 14+ min ago (303+ words) On Monday, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor did a podcast with Pat Flynn for Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence on how materialism is faring in the battle for the mind. Egnor is the first author of The Immortal Mind: (Worthy, June…...
When Lost Worlds Get Found, Ruling Tenets Get Retired
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (408+ words) During my lifetime, Neanderthal man has gotten progressively smarter. Well, not personally smarter because he now survives only in our genomes. But before we knew very much about him — including the fact that he does survive in our genomes — it…...
Did you know there is a typeface that prevents AI data theft?
4+ day, 4+ hour ago (401+ words) Chances are, you don’t because bots see things differently from the way we do. That’s the basis for ShieldFont, which was developed to prevent bots from just scraping everybody’s hard work on the internet. Essentially, it is intended for “polluting…...
Tag: Virus research restrictions
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (27+ words) mindmatters.ai World political leaders like Donald Trump should be much more concerned about these developments; they could easily leap out of the lab....
Interview with Robert J. Marks II on the Benefits and Potential Perils of AI
5+ day, 16+ hour ago (213+ words) This interview in the link below first appeared in Humanize. We are in the age of artificial intelligence. But what does that mean for the human future? Some claim that AI is merely a very sophisticated tool that will lead…...
Tag: Donald Trump (and AI-created viruses)
6+ day, 2+ hour ago (29+ words) mindmatters.ai World political leaders like Donald Trump should be much more concerned about these developments; they could easily leap out of the lab....