The Overview Effect
What are the conditions that brings about the overview effect? How can the overview effect impact the way we see ourselves, and our role in this universe?
Month: October 2019
Exploring the role of the human heart
Research shows us that it is the heart that regulates the brain. What new capacities will be revealed as we continue to study the heart’s internal nervous system?
IBM tech powers AI for Mayflower Autonomous Ship Project
An autonomous ship is being built to help reduce the cost of ocean research. How else can the Mayflower Autonomous Ship Project impact future societies?
Understanding the AI black box
This article may have been written in 2018, but we are nowhere near resolving the explainability problem in even the simplest of AI. Why then do we allow countries and companies to experiment towards artificial general intelligence when the most basic of concerns has not yet been resolved?
Manifesto for a post-materialist science
Scientists have proclaimed in 2014 the emergence of a new scientific paradigm. Today, their works are becoming mainstream, and materialist science is hard pressed at disproving their scientific researches.
Welcoming generation surveillance
An entire generation is growing in a hyper visible world. How will this affect generation z’s understanding of reality?
What science knows about happiness
Humans are hardwired to experience happiness, but with the internet at the artificial seeping into daily life, we must teach our children how to distinguish genuinely nurturing relationships.
How science has changed the human identity
Science has always been a great tool for humanity to understand its true nature. This time, however, it is allowing us to rediscover the lost part of ourselves.
OpenAI’s robotic hand solves Rubik’s cube
Open AI’s new robotic hand brings us a step closer to a general purpose robot.
Rachel Thomas: This is what scares me about AI
AI researcher Rachel Thomas says that the dangers of sentient robots are overblown, but there are real AI dangers that are not receiving enough attention.