there’s a key to being conscious—and AI doesn’t have it

Far from the humanoid robots of Blade Runner and the cyberpunk genre, and despite former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s paranoia about machines turning sentient and plotting a massive takeover of Earth, there’s a reason today’s AI probably doesn’t possess consciousness. Digital entities whose every need is met have no reason to develop it through …

faith: the axis on which the wheel of science turns

Beneath every “fact” lies a series of assumptions that cannot be proven. Like it or not, even science requires a leap of faith. Can Science be True if it has no Faith? Bill Nye, the ‘Science Guy,’ affirms that his “point of view is based on the facts of life” and not on faith-based “suppositions of life.”1 For …