Freeing science from materialism
To break free from materialism, we must leap in faith, hoping that we can encounter the truth.
AI Overview And Worldview
Why materialism cannot explain consciousness
Because we are unable to define what matter is, a materialist explanation of consciousness is untenable.
Why are we building robot priests?
Can we trust machines to have a hand in our connection to the divine?
Arguments against friendly AI
For Dan Faggella, post-human intelligence will only lead to super-competition, which in turn, leads to human extinction.
Our universe might yet be special
The Copernican Principle made us believe that our universe, our earth is replaceable. But modern scientific developments ate showing us otherwise.
Understanding the AI alignment problem
As DeepMind goes deeper into the creation of an artificial general intelligence (AGI), it attempts to address the alignment problem. Will Iason Gabriel’s new work finally resolve it?
The perils and promise of AI conscientiousness
SafeLife hopes to address unintended consequences of AI systems, but Matt Beane says that it could lead to even more complex unintended consequences.
The consciousness wager
In 1998, two thinkers made a bet: Christof Koch bet a case of fine wine, saying that by 2023 someone would discover a signature for consciousness. But David Chalmers disagreed. How are the new findings in consciousness studies supporting or disproving the two positions?
Why you might never be able to upload your brain to a computer
It has been seven years since transhumanist George Dvorsky wrote this landmark article on mind uploading, but despite the improvements in science and technology, his points remain true as ever.
Materialist theories of consciousness is not plausible
Eric Holloway has come up with an important conclusion: there is no materialist theory that can completely explain the nature of consciousness.