If you read science fiction, this is a great time to live in. If you haven’t tried reading science fiction…
Arkady Martine got my attention by winning the 2020 Hugo Award for best science fiction novel, which was her 2019…
Among most people’s lists of great science fiction novels, you’ll find such books as 2001 a Space Odyssey, by Arthur…
Award winning Chinese science fiction author Cixin Liu has said, “Science fiction is a literature that belongs to all humankind.…
In my quest to find out how other science fiction writers have handled the subject of first contact with an…
The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values By Brian Christian I must admit that I was taken by surprise…
In her book, Artificial You, philosopher and author, Susan Schneider says that if Aliens visit Earth, they will most likely…
Is Consciousness an Epiphenomenon?Image from Christof Koch (2004) “Figure 1.1: Neuronal correlates of consciousness” in The Quest for Consciousness: A Neurobiological…
If the question or some of the words in the title are unfamiliar to you, it means: could consciousness be…
The recent release of a government report on UFOs leaves more questions unanswered than answered. There is little to link…
In my novel, Ezekiel’s Brain, plus in many other sci-fi AI stories (Pandora’s Brain, Robopocalypse, 2001 a Space Odyssey, Isaac…
In 2004, I wrote I, Carlos, a novel in which a new form of entertainment, called neurostories, involved implanting a…
Some books have the power to generate iconic images of the future. Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, for instance, with…
Our human minds were constructed over hundreds of thousands of years (actually millions of years, considering pre-human evolution), cellular circuit…
Could humans disappear from earth? Far-fetched as it sounds, the chances of such an outcome are not as small as…