Whether the driveway is wet provides information about whether it rained. If the driveway is dry, it certainly has not rained. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Category: Science
Design Concepts: Interoception Is a Match for Proprioception
The take-home point is surely this: Our bodies have all sorts of ways of giving us information that do not run through our senses. Source Read More Science and Culture…
Sanger Banned by Wikipedia: Diagnosing a Disease
Sanger became a Christian, which probably got him crossed off a lot of people’s Santa list. But how did he get banned? Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Technological Evolution: Accidentally Demonstrating the Limits of Evolution
While economist Brian Arthur models the development of technology, he refers to it as the “evolution” of technology. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Why Dawkins’s Argument for AI Is an Argument for God
If step-by-step mechanical explanations do not rule out creation by intelligent agents, then I’m not sure we can dismiss the evidence for design in nature. Source Read More Science and…
In Defiance of Evolution, Life Is an Idea
Nobody looks at a bear and thinks, “If it only had a long tail, it would be more bear-like.” Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Who Pushed the Button? A Question at the Frontier of Human Inquiry
While answers may venture beyond the limits of the empirical sciences, that doesn’t mean the sciences don’t offer meaningful information to bear on them. Source Read More Science and Culture…
Modularity: Insufficient for and Unexplained by Evolution
The fundamental problem with this analysis is that sexual reproduction does not make anything modular. Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Mind Over Matter: Darwin, AI, and the Future of Reason
If our minds are the product of a blind and aimless process, what reason do we have to believe what we think? Source Read More Science and Culture Today
Who Coined the Phrase “the Magician’s Twin”? The Pitfalls of Relying on AI for Your Facts
Many of the chatbots have told me that C. S. Lewis coined the phrase. (Wrong.) When pressed, at least one chatbot insisted it was English author A. N. Wilson. Source…