1+ hour, 7+ min ago  (421+ words) In the Spring/Summer edition of Harvard Medicine, associate editor Molly Mc Donough offers an article on new findings about consciousness among the comatose. Doctors, she says, can be very surprised when patients who do not seem to respond are…...

7+ hour, 23+ min ago  (475+ words) This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. Some physicians" organizations have noticed the trend and are pushing back. A few months ago, an opinion article in the'Annals of Internal Medicine'argued that using the term…...

13+ hour, 3+ min ago  (243+ words) This abridged version of my essay first appeared in New English Review What makes good dialogue in a film? For me, good dialogue is like great poetry where the real meaning can sometimes be hidden or disguised beneath the words....

1+ day, 28+ min ago  (257+ words) Egnor observes, "If there is no free will, everything is an act of nature," and therefore "morality" can make no claims about anything. It's an only illusion projected by the meatware of our brains. He also offers a proposal for…...

1+ day, 53+ min ago  (212+ words) The Amazon founder complained to Trump over dinner that nobody there listened to him before slashing staff, according to excerpts from a forthcoming book. " Justin Caffier, "Jeff Bezos Called Washington Post His Worst Investment and Staff He Laid Off "Terrible…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (394+ words) Cambridge philosopher of science Natalie Lawrence, author with Paco Calvo of Planta Sapiens: Unmasking Plant Intelligence (Little, Brown, 2022), tells us at IAI. TV, that "New studies suggest consciousness exists in organisms without brains." It's an argument for consciousness in plants…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago  (465+ words) Truth. That's the title of Dr. Michael Shermer's recent book, and the subject of my recent TEDx talk. It's a hot button issue and has been for millennia. The book presents itself to be "about the search for objectivity and…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (881+ words) Last week's Micro Softy challenged our puzzlers ability to think abstractly. We explored how simple rules can lead to complex behavior when the rules are followed by unintelligent agents " in that case it was dumb bugs. We continue that theme…...

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (29+ words) mindmatters. ai L's essay offers a much more sober assessment of transhumanism, the war on human exceptionalism, and the idea that machines think like people....

5+ day, 7+ hour ago  (29+ words) mindmatters. ai L's essay offers a much more sober assessment of transhumanism, the war on human exceptionalism, and the idea that machines think like people....