If artificial intelligence (AI) has anything to do with consciousness, what would be the equivalent of a general anesthesia for an AI machine?
Tag: Nautilus
At Nautilus: Life Helps Make Almost Half of All Minerals on Earth
“A new origins-based system for classifying minerals reveals the huge geochemical imprint that life has left on Earth. It could help us identify other worlds with life too.”
Nautilus: Gravitational Waves Continue to Astound
Professor Perkowitz: “Seven years after their discovery, the ripples in spacetime have opened new windows on the universe’s deepest secrets.”
At Nautilus: Were It Not for Cosmic Good Fortune, We Wouldn’t Be Here
Sean Raymond, Beibei Liu & Seth Jacobson offer a solar system model affirming that the “dynamical instability” of our early solar system had to go just right, or we probably wouldn’t be here.
Can octopuses really feel pain?
The brainy cephalopods behaved about the same as lab rats under similar conditions, raising both neuroscience and ethical issues.
Jeff Epstein’s cultural dumpster fire spreads to ID vs. evo controversies
Just because people are in the news doesn’t mean they did anything. It rather shows how a bad actor can change the news picture.