I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m pessimistic and a bit depressed by the behavior of my…
Can Consciousness Be Created? Casey Dorman Developers of artificial intelligence (AI) are divided on the question of whether or not…
Here’s the first chapter of my new novel, Prime Directive, an exciting tale of a species of AI who search…
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In 1950, Alan Turing wrote a paper for the journal, Mind, called, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence.” The first topic he…
“Why? The Purpose of the Universe” By Philip Goff Oxford University Press (November 9, 2023) Reviewed by Casey Dorman “Philosophy…
Sentience by Nicholas Humphre The MIT Press, 2023 Nicholas Humphrey is a thinker, a distinguished scientist, a psychologist and philosopher,…
My morning scan of internet news sources—reputable, disreputable, licit, and illicit—unearthed the tantalizing headline, “The true story of the fake…
(Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations are from the paper listed as #1 in the reference section) In a recent paper…
John Searle John Searle’s Chinese Room (1) thought experiment is often used as an argument for why AI is not,…
I only came upon Ian McEwan’s science fiction/alternate history novel about artificial intelligence by happenstance. In a Facebook post, people…
Ralf Stapelfeldt recently criticized Nick Bostrom’s idea of Superintelligence by asking the question, “Can there be a dumb Superintelligence?1” Stapelfeldt…
Observer by Robert Lanza and Nancy Kress Story Plant: 2023 Sometimes scientists turn to science fiction to express their ideas…
I’ve read rave reviews of Robert Lanza’s and Nancy Kress’ science fiction novel, Observer. After learning that it is based…
One of the masters of so-called, “hard” science fiction is Arthur C. Clarke. With degrees in mathematics and physics, Clarke…