SCIENCE UPRISING
You may well have never heard of Dr. Robert Marks, author of “Non-Computable You: What You Do that Artificial Intelligence Never Will (2022).” But if you are interested, fascinated or terrified by AI, you are in for a treat today. Marks is the Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Baylor University and one…
Read MoreMost folks educated in recent decades were taught — and it’s quite likely that the vast majority still believe — that there is nothing that makes up reality other than the material world of atoms, molecules, energy and motion. There is no spirit, nothing that is not matter in motion, measurable and without non-material significance.…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is already a pervasive influence, thanks to advances in robotic manufacturing that offers mixed blessings. Robots can all-but-endlessly manufacture products to perfect specifications, but the same robots take jobs from human beings. There are also worries that the time will come when AI will result in robots that develop the capacity to…
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SCIENCE UPRISING: No, We Human Beings Are Not Just Accidental Specks In A Universe Without A Purpose
Let’s get real about the most basic question of all – Why is there something rather than nothing? Or to put it another way, why does the universe exist and how did we living, thinking, feeling human beings get here? At the most basic level, there are only three possible answers: The universe has always…
Read MoreWe’ve all seen the illustrations showing the monkey on all fours followed by a succession of increasingly upright, steadily more human-appearing figures that allegedly demonstrates the course of evolution that produced us all. Only ignorant bigots who never got past the Scopes thing question the illustration, right? The truth is that there is more —…
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