2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (646+ words) At Fast Company, we learn that “Bill Gates has a dire warning about AI,” publicized at the Telluride Film Festival. He prophesied “mass unemployment and major social, political, and economic upheaval across the globe.” His solution? In a 6000-word essay,…...

3+ day, 10+ hour ago   (556+ words) Panpsychism has often appeared to be a strategy for rescuing materialism: We have minds, but so what? So do electrons! What about it? While Calvo now runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain, he started…...

4+ day, 18+ hour ago   (525+ words) There has been a lot of buzz in the last few days that Anthropic’s chatbot Claude is making big breakthroughs in math. The most recent claim concerns Fermat’s Last Theorem. The Theorem1 says that it’s impossible to find three whole numbers…...

1+ week, 15+ hour ago   (321+ words) Alex O’Connor, who describes himself as a former atheist/agnostic, appeared on Closer to Truth in a segment called “Why Emergence Cannot Explain Consciousness.” It is Part 2 in a series of 8. [1:50 min] Why Strong Emergence Cannot Explain Consciousness O’Connor: I…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (448+ words) Yes, the lizard brain is a staple of pop psychology. For example, did you know that your lizard brain “fuels overthinking and social anxiety”? The claims that we have a reptilian brain underlying our human one is a staple of…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (590+ words) Founded in 1869, Nature has long been one of the world’s top science journals. Thus many were surprised by its editorial yesterday on who’s to blame for the tragic death, thought to be suicide, of disgraced Cambridge scholar Jason Arday: “The…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (156+ words) In the Smithsonian Magazine, Ben Crair recounts his journey to a Paleolithic “art gallery” cave: “The Prehistoric Paintings on the Walls of Caves … With the Right Kind of Light, Some Actually Seem to Move,” September/October 2026 Researchers like Diego Garate…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (409+ words) This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — has editorialized in favor of requiring scientists to register with governments as a condition of participation in the…...

2+ week, 16+ hour ago   (847+ words) You don’t have to spend much time skimming the voluminous philosophy of mind literature to come across the mind–body interaction problem. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains it thus: Originally, the problem of mental causation was that of understanding how…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (491+ words) Magical things have been seen in the skies for thousands of years, often interpreted by Earthlings as visitors from other planets. In modern times, unidentified flying object (UFO) sightings have become a popular hobby. Established in 1974, the National UFO Reporting…...