Philosophy – Page 46 – William M. Briggs

What Neural Nets Really Are: Or, Artificial Intelligence Pioneer Says Start Over

There is ancient wisdom in the phrase never believe your own press that computer scientists have laid aside in their quest to discover "artificial" "intelligence". In the Axios article "Artificial…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: Our Intellects Are United To Our Bodies

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. We've finally…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Human Soul Is Created By God, Part IV

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. A continuation…

Culture Philosophy

Is There “Psychic Unity” In Mankind?

Via Nick Land comes the link to the West Hunter blog, and the article Same Old. The entry is short: We now know ( from ancient DNA) that Bushmen split…

Culture Philosophy Statistics

Video: How To Think About Statistics, Figures, And New Ideas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmMBLTz6Pp8 Hard link to the video. This post ran originally on 28 February 2015. Given the quiet weekend, I postponed our Summa Contra Gentiles until next week. It is a…

Class Philosophy Statistics

Taleb’s Curious Views On Probability — Part I: I Say Probability Does Not Exist

Ye Olde Statistician points us to an essay (a book chapter?) by our old pal Nassim Nicholas Taleb called "The Logic of Risk Taking". Let's examine it. You, dear reader,…

Book review Philosophy

The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions by David Berlinski

A modified version of this article ran 14 April 2008. There are a recent number of books seeking to either demonstrate, scientifically, that God does not exist, or to show…

Philosophy SAMT

Summary Against Modern Thought: The Human Soul Is Created By God, Part III

See the first post in this series for an explanation and guide of our tour of Summa Contra Gentiles. All posts are under the category SAMT. Previous post. A continuation…

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