Your Mind Uploaded in a Computer Would Not Be You
by Wesley J. SmithVisionaries in Silicon Valley hope to defeat death by uploading human minds to computers. Continue Reading »
An AI Thanksgiving Proclamation
by Wesley J. SmithIn a world without God, some are turning to technology as their focus of worship. Continue Reading »
Being Alive is the First Requirement for Moral Value
by Wesley J. SmithArtificial intelligence machines have no greater moral claim to our respect or ethical consideration than a broken toaster. Continue Reading »
Humans After All
by Dan HitchensEven if robots aren't stealing our jobs, they may be stealing our humanity. Continue Reading »
A Life of Being-in-the-World
by John SchwenklerThe profession of philosophy lost one of its most distinguished members with the death of Hubert Dreyfus on Saturday, April 22. Continue Reading »
Fie Upon Phi
by David Bentley HartA venerable rule of predication is that certain words—or, at least, certain homonymous terms—admit of univocal, equivocal, and analogical acceptations. That is to say, there are times when a term has precisely the same meaning in two or more discrete instances of its use: say, “blue” as . . . . Continue Reading »
Frequencies of Thought
by David GelernterStephen Meredith argues a thesis that seems to me correct, important, and widely overlooked—the triple crown in the Interesting Assertions sweepstakes. It is that the scientific attitude must respect the nonscientific grounds of its actions, or else it shall slide into a dehumanizing instrument . . . . Continue Reading »
Toward Dystopia
by Gladden J. PappinSuperintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by nick bostrom oxford, 352 pages, $29.95 Since cofounding the World Transhumanist Association in 1998, the Swedish-born Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom has attempted to give a serious academic mien to the movement known as transhumanism. Transhumanists . . . . Continue Reading »
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