Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
In 1895 the Lumière brothers shot a 50-second silent documentary. It famously captured a steam locomotive pulling into a station. Titled “L’Arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat“, it was first shown to the public in January 1896 in Lyon. A rather popular story is that when the film was first shown, the audience was … Read more
You might perhaps have seen the news that a Google Engineer has become convinced that an artificial intelligence that they created has become ‘sentient’ (self-aware). Is this true, has this AI called LaMDA really become self-aware? Short answer – no. Slightly longer answer – Seriously, just no. So what is going on here, what has … Read more
Stuart Hameroff has a HuffPo article within which he writes an open letter to Richard Dawkins and Michael Shermer, and having looked, I really can’t resist the urge to plug in a few additional thoughts … Dear Richard and Michael, I read your lament that some people leave religion for ‘something worse,’ Deepak Chopra’s spirituality. I would say … Read more