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Bookmark Why making if-then connections might be the key to consciousness | Aeon…
As recently as just a few decades ago, the interconnected web of experiences, thoughts and emotions known as a ‘stream of consciousness’ was widely believed to belong to humans alone. A…

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Bookmark The People Cheering for Humanity’s End - The Atlantic
With this declaration in The Order of Things (1966), the French philosopher Michel Foucault heralded a new way of thinking that would transform the humanities and social sciences.

December 12 2022, 1:53am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 23 2022, 3:33am | Comments
Syllabus Cache Data & Society — A Primer on AI in/from the…
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 22 2022, 11:33pm | Comments
Syllabus Cache A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World
A Primer on AI in/from the Majority World is a curated collection of over 160 thematic works that serve as pathways to explore the presence of artificial intelligence and technology in the geographic regions that are home to…

September 14 2022, 10:33pm | Comments
Bookmark Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big…
Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish,…

August 28 2022, 7:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Horror stories of cryonics: The gruesome fates of frozen bodies - Big…
Several facilities in the U.S. and abroad maintain morbid warehouse morgues full of frozen human heads and bodies, waiting for the future. They are part of a story that is ghoulish,…

August 28 2022, 3:51pm | Comments
Bookmark Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought | Fossils…
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their east African…

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic
When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

July 23 2022, 3:51am | Comments
Bookmark Early human ancestors one million years older than earlier thought | Fossils…
The fossils of our earliest ancestors found in South Africa are a million years older than previously thought, meaning they walked the Earth around the same time as their east African…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark How Early Humans Handled Aggression - The Atlantic
When I was studying for my doctorate, in the late 1960s, we budding anthropologists read a book called Ideas on Human Evolution, a collection of then-recent papers in the field. With…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
Bookmark The Dangerous Populist Science of Yuval Noah Harari ❧ Current Affairs
Watch videos of Yuval Noah Harari, the author of the wildly successful book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, and you will hear him being asked the most astonishing questions. Harari’s…

July 22 2022, 11:51pm | Comments
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for millennia human beings have wondered: “what does the cosmos taste like?”

July 7 2022, 6:28am | Comments
Bookmark The Puzzling Reason AI May Never Compete With Human Consciousness - CNET
Constructing humanlike artificial intelligence often starts with deconstructing humans. Take fingerprints: When holding soapy dishes, we intuitively adjust our grip based on our fingerprint structure.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think -…
You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…
Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

June 3 2022, 5:52am | Comments
Bookmark The Puzzling Reason AI May Never Compete With Human Consciousness - CNET
Constructing humanlike artificial intelligence often starts with deconstructing humans. Take fingerprints: When holding soapy dishes, we intuitively adjust our grip based on our fingerprint structure.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Atheism is not as rare or as rational as you think -…
You are a member of a very peculiar species. Of all our quirks, the human religious impulse may be our most distinctive one. We build skyscrapers? Big deal, bowerbirds construct ornate…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark ‘The Game is Over’: AI breakthrough puts DeepMind on verge of achieving…
Human-level artificial intelligence is close to finally being achieved, according to a lead researcher at Google’s DeepMind AI division.

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
Bookmark Why longtermism is the world’s most dangerous secular credo | Aeon Essays
There seems to be a growing recognition that humanity might be approaching the ‘end times’. Dire predictions of catastrophe clutter the news. Social media videos of hellish wildfires, devastating floods and…

June 3 2022, 1:52am | Comments
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April 22 2022, 6:07am | Comments
Bookmark Rise of the machines: new book shows how revolutionary AlphaZero is |…
The eye-catching victory of AlphaZero, the artificial-intelligence program that taught itself to play chess, over the No 1 computer engine Stockfish, has evoked comparisons with human legends.

April 11 2022, 12:51am | Comments
Bookmark Xenofeminism: A Framework to Hack the Human| New Proposals: Journal of Marxism…
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February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark A New Database Reveals How Much Humans Are Messing With Evolution |…
Charles Darwin thought of evolution as an incremental process, like the patient creep of glaciers or the march of continental plates.

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
Bookmark Modern humans began to evolve, and almost immediately split into three groups…

February 28 2022, 12:52am | Comments
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January 21 2022, 9:00am | Comments
Bookmark The Humans We Haven’t Met Yet - SAPIENS
Please note that this article includes images of human remains. Everything that’s been called Homo sapiens, isn’t.

December 6 2021, 2:51pm | Comments
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November 26 2021, 2:06am | Comments
Bookmark 'Philosophy is for posh, white boys with trust funds' – why are…
Philosophy stands out among the humanities: it’s one of the few subject areas where women are vastly outnumbered by men. Although male and female students take philosophy undergraduate courses in almost…

November 25 2021, 2:51am | Comments
Bookmark Review: ‘The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity’ - The…
Many years ago, when I was a junior professor at Yale, I cold-called a colleague in the anthropology department for assistance with a project I was working on. I didn’t know…

October 19 2021, 7:51am | Comments

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