2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (309+ words) As students, teachers, and schools begin another academic year, one technology that is guaranteed to be at the center of the educational pursuit, like it or not, is artificial intelligence. Since 2022, widespread use of generative AI and chatbots has upended…...

2+ day, 19+ hour ago   (648+ words) A quarter century ago, in mid-September in Toronto, I was tidying plants on the retaining wall of the front yard. My mother was sipping coffee on the porch. A neighbor came out and called over, “Thought you might want to…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago   (453+ words) Yes, the lizard brain is an old favorite of pop psychology. For example, did you know that your lizard brain “fuels overthinking and social anxiety”? The claim that we have a reptilian brain underlying our human one is a staple…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (356+ words) We hope you are enjoying your Labor Day weekend. While you are carefully putting away all your white clothing until next summer, take a moment to consider the impact of labor on the development of evolutionary theory. Watch the video…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (652+ words) You don’t have to spend much time skimming the voluminous philosophy of mind literature to come across the mind–body interaction problem. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains it thus: Originally, the problem of mental causation was that of understanding how…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (650+ words) “If, on the other hand, one views nature as ingenious artwork that cannot be reduced to the question of utility alone, these problems disappear.” Source Editor’s note: Writing at The American Spectator, mathematician Granville Sewell considers the “problem of gratuitous…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (179+ words) As Casey Luskin wrote here earlier today, C. W. Howell’s book Designer Science tries to tie intelligent design to larger trends of “extreme” science skepticism that have bothered many in the science community. Howell seeks to link those to the political right:…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (554+ words) A just published puff-piece interview by The Water Diplomat with Dutch human and nature rights lawyer Jan van de Venis illustrates this tactic. Let’s take a look. Van de Venis is asked to describe how nature rights is being furthered....