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Cogito Ergo Sum – The Gospel in a Human 2.0 World

Cogito Ergo Sum – The Gospel in a Human 2.0 World

"Nothing will affect the future of humanity more than digital super-intelligence." This tweet from Elon Musk coincided with the online release this past weekend of the new documentary, Do You Trust This Computer. 1  The movie is creating quite some buzz on the...

Rebuttal of Carroll’s Brute Fact Hypothesis, Part 2

Rebuttal of Carroll’s Brute Fact Hypothesis, Part 2

This is part 2 in this series of posts rebutting Sean Carrol’s recent paper titled Why is there Something, Rather Than Nothing?. In part 1 we were introduced to Sean Carroll, a cosmologist who wrote a philosophy paper arguing that the universe can exist as a brute...