14Jun 2023 by Post

All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

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In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Source
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16Feb 2023 by Post

Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

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As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Source
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06Jul 2022 by Post

Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

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Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Source
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28Jun 2022 by Post

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?

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Lady Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer. Source
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26Jun 2022 by Post

Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

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A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." Source
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03Dec 2021 by Post

What Is Intelligent Design and How Should We Defend It?

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Intelligent design is a scientific theory that holds that many features of the universe and living things are best explained by an intelligent cause. Source
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16Dec 2019 by Post

The Ultimate Recycler

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When a city starts out with a major energy deficit, there are two changes that should be made: to be really, and I mean really efficient at recycling the critical resource, or to buy more energy. What about in biology? Cells are like cities, right? Out of Balance We already know from a previous post (“The Mystery of Energy Metabolism”) that the cell has an energy budget that is out of balance based solely on biosynthesis and use of ATP. It is in a predicament. It has an extreme shortfall in ATP in its balance sheet, needing six ATP just to make one. ATP is a high energy molecule. All that energy has to be loaded into the molecule during its synthesis by using up other ATP molecules. If chemical A is…
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