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Elon Musk

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 10, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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At Scientific American: Why we live in a simulation

Denyse O'Leary
April 10, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
This is likely intended as a spoof: "There is nothing in philosophy or science, no postulates, theories or laws, that would predict the emergence of this experience we call consciousness. Natural laws do not call for its existence, and it certainly does not seem to offer us any evolutionary advantages." But it happens to be true. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 27, 2020
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Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
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Jonathan Bartlett: Elon Musk inadvertently tumbles to a big problem in origin of life theory

Denyse O'Leary
September 27, 2020
Information, Intelligent Design, Origin Of Life
Bartlett: Indeed, whatever the difficulty of creating life in the lab, making individual prototypes is not nearly as problematic as making “the machine that makes the machine,” which all reproducing living cells can do. That is, the ability of an organism to reproduce is at least an order of magnitude harder that the ability of an organism to just live. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
May 17, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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Jonathan Bartlett on Elon Musk’s myths of the mind

Denyse O'Leary
May 17, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
Bartlett: What I found most interesting about the conversation, however, is not the technology itself but the (secular) mythology embedded in Musk’s lengthy descriptions of what he thinks his device can do… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 6, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence, Human evolution, Mind
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Jonathan Bartlett: Does evolution mean computers will take over?

Denyse O'Leary
September 6, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Human evolution, Mind

Elon Musk sees technology as taking over the human world and we’d best consider our options. Ma points out that humans build computers but no computer has ever built a human: For Musk, technology is not a tool to promote humanity. Rather, technology will take humanity’s place of leadership in the world. Humans will have a choice to integrate with our technological masters or be left behind as a relic of evolutionary history, just one more living fossil roaming the landscape. It is interesting how the theory of evolution contributes to this idea of a technological singularity (an endpoint of human history as we know it). Ma, while impressed with technology, is more impressed with humans. He points out that Read More ›