Behaving rationally involves facing up to conditions of uncertainty; we never navigate the world with perfect confidence. Sometimes we are […]
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Evolution with natural selection involves an intricate mix of the random and the driven. Mutations are essentially random, while selection
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It’s become increasingly clear that the Turing Test — determining whether human interlocutors can tell whether a conversation is being
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Game theory is a way of quantitatively describing what happens any time one thing interacts with another thing, when both
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Certain features of our universe seem unnatural to us. These include “constants of nature” such as the cosmological constant and
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“Liberalism,” divorced from its particular connotations in this or that modern political context, refers broadly to a philosophy of individual
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When we think of the capacities that distinguish humans from other species, we generally turn to intelligence and its byproducts,
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It is common to refer to philosophy as “a series of footnotes to Plato.” But in the original quote, Alfred
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Every time you see an apple spontaneously break away from a tree, it falls downward. You therefore claim that there
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Questions about consciousness range from the precise and empirical — what neurons fire when I have some particular experience —
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