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- Does the Evidence for Our Universe's Fine-Tuning Mean Anything? https://mindmatters.ai/2023/10/does-the-evidence-for-our-universes-fine-tuning-mean-anything/ 2 comments
- Cal Newport: Overstimulation Is Ruining Your Life https://mindmatters.ai/2023/09/cal-newport-over-stimulation-is-ruining-your-life/ 67 comments
- Artificial Consciousness Remains Impossible (Part 2) https://mindmatters.ai/2023/09/artificial-consciousness-remains-impossible-part-2/ 88 comments
- We Need to Keep Medicine “Evidence-Based” https://mindmatters.ai/2023/09/we-need-to-keep-medicine-evidence-based/ 2 comments
- The small steps that lead to dystopia https://mindmatters.ai/2023/08/the-small-steps-that-lead-to-dystopia/ 17 comments
- Why Many Researchers Now See the Brain as a Quantum System https://mindmatters.ai/2022/12/why-many-researchers-now-see-the-brain-as-a-quantum-system/ 3 comments
- Forget the hype, “thinking machines” can’t replace humans https://mindmatters.ai/2022/07/marks-forget-the-hype-thinking-machines-cant-replace-humans/ 85 comments
- The AI Illusion – State-of-the-Art Chatbots Aren’t What They Seem https://mindmatters.ai/2022/03/the-ai-illusion-state-of-the-art-chatbots-arent-what-they-seem/ 5 comments
- Tesla Continues to Walk Back Full Self-Driving Claims https://mindmatters.ai/2021/04/tesla-continues-to-walk-back-full-self-driving-claims/ 128 comments
- Helping Students See How Math Benefits Them in the Long Run https://mindmatters.ai/2020/11/helping-students-see-how-math-benefits-them-in-the-long-run/ 2 comments
- A scientific test for true intelligence https://mindmatters.ai/2020/04/a-scientific-test-for-true-intelligence/ 4 comments
- We Went Back to Visit Gödel, Escher, and Bach https://mindmatters.ai/2019/07/we-went-back-to-visit-godel-escher-and-bach/ 2 comments
- Quantum Mechanics Shows That Our Universe Has Purpose https://mindmatters.ai/2020/01/quantum-mechanics-shows-that-our-universe-has-purpose/ 2 comments
- Can Machines Be Given Consciousness? https://mindmatters.ai/2020/01/can-machines-be-given-consciousness/ 2 comments
- Story: What if AI is people? https://mindmatters.ai/2019/11/finally-the-ultimate-smart-machine/ 2 comments
- Science Points to an Immaterial Mind https://mindmatters.ai/2019/06/science-points-to-an-immaterial-mind/ 8 comments
- True Believer Loses Faith in Fully Self-Driving Cars https://mindmatters.ai/2019/06/true-believer-loses-faith-in-fully-self-driving-cars/ 3 comments
- The Human Brain: Even Basic Facts Are Hotly Contested https://mindmatters.ai/2019/04/the-human-brain-even-basic-facts-are-hotly-contested/ 48 comments
- Walter Bradley Center Fellow Discovers Longstanding Flaw in Elementary Calculus https://mindmatters.ai/2019/04/walter-bradley-center-fellow-discovers-longstanding-flaw-in-elementary-calculus/ 6 comments
- The brain exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency https://mindmatters.ai/2019/02/the-brain-exceeds-the-most-powerful-computers-in-efficiency/ 69 comments
- McDonald’s, Meet McPathogens https://mindmatters.ai/2018/12/mcdonalds-meet-mcpathogen/ 22 comments
- JWST might show evidence that the Big Baang never happened. Thought this was a interesting read. https://mindmatters.ai/2022/08/james-webb-space-telescope-shows-big-bang-didnt-happen-wait/ 4 comments space
- Could Real Planets Be Like the Sci-Fi Ones? https://mindmatters.ai/2022/06/could-tatooine-be-real-what-about-other-sci-fi-planets/ 17 comments space
- As powerful new telescopes come on line, we will be able to look for chemical signatures of civilization, not just life - but what technosignatures should we look for? https://mindmatters.ai/2022/03/so-what-alien-tech-should-the-new-telescopes-be-looking-for/ 66 comments futurology
- Chatbots: Still Dumb After All These Years https://mindmatters.ai/2022/01/will-chatbots-replace-the-art-of-human-conversation/ 3 comments coding
- New Process Can Turn Garbage into High Quality Graphene using $30 worth of electricity for each ton produced https://mindmatters.ai/2021/11/flash-graphene-born-again-plastic-is-planet-friendly/ 3 comments technews
- New Process Can Turn Garbage into High Quality Graphene using $30 worth of electricity for each ton produced https://mindmatters.ai/2021/11/flash-graphene-born-again-plastic-is-planet-friendly/ 8 comments technology
- New Process Can Turn Garbage into High Quality Graphene using $30 worth of electricity for each ton produced https://mindmatters.ai/2021/11/flash-graphene-born-again-plastic-is-planet-friendly/ 78 comments futurology
- Peter Thiel: Artificial General Intelligence isn't happening - That whole transhumanist movement is slowing down, he told COSM 2021. But, he adds, What IS happening should sober us up a lot https://mindmatters.ai/2021/11/peter-thiel-artificial-general-intelligence-isnt-happening/ 42 comments futurology
- Peter Thiel: Artificial General Intelligence Isn't Happening https://mindmatters.ai/2021/11/peter-thiel-artificial-general-intelligence-isnt-happening/ 63 comments artificial
- "...an advanced civilization could have developed a technology that created a baby universe out of nothing through quantum tunneling." Could our universe have been created by alien intelligences as Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb suggested recently? https://mindmatters.ai/2021/10/harvard-astronomer-advanced-aliens-engineered-the-big-bang/ 218 comments aliens
- A recent physics journal paper proposes self-simulation as the origin of the universe, using a quantum gravity model https://mindmatters.ai/2021/09/researchers-the-universe-simulated-itself-into-existence/ 148 comments futurology
- Seven in 10 Institutional Investors Expect To Buy Cryptos https://mindmatters.ai/2021/08/seven-in-10-institutional-investors-expect-to-buy-cryptos/ 15 comments cryptocurrency
- Could Red Dwarf Stars Host Planets With Intelligent Life? https://mindmatters.ai/2021/05/would-red-dwarf-stars-make-good-hosts-for-intelligent-life/ 25 comments space
- Can AI Really Evolve into Superintelligence All by Itself? https://mindmatters.ai/2020/09/can-ai-really-evolve-into-superintelligence-all-by-itself/ 8 comments compsci
- NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory study suggests that most extraterrestrial civilizations have died out. https://mindmatters.ai/2021/01/researchers-we-dont-see-ets-because-they-are-all-dead/ 5 comments space
- Darwinian mechanism can only explain the survival of consciousness, not the arrival of consciousness https://mindmatters.ai/2020/02/did-consciousness-evolve-a-darwinist-responds/ 539 comments philosophy
- We went back to visit Gödel, Escher, and Bach… Forty years after publication, how has a big explain-the-mind book withstood the test of time? https://mindmatters.ai/2019/07/we-went-back-to-visit-godel-escher-and-bach/ 3 comments programming
- Why some scientists believe the universe is conscious https://mindmatters.ai/2019/08/why-some-scientists-believe-the-universe-is-conscious/ 1237 comments philosophy
- Study Shows Eating Raisins Causes Plantar Warts...Wait What? https://mindmatters.ai/2018/12/study-shows-eating-raisins-causes-plantar-warts/ 8 comments compsci