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If AI becomes conscious, how would we treat it? Animals may hold a clue.
This article is a preview of Big Think’s upcoming print issue, Made In Our Image: The philosophies of AI and what they reveal about us.
Credit: Lorenzo Matteucci | Big Think
By Henry Shevlin
Consciousness remains the deepest puzzl...
The leading theory of how life began just hit a snag
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How and where life first emerged on Earth is one of the great unsolved puzzles for scientists exploring the possibility of life on other worlds. For the past decade or so, the prevailing theo...
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By Frank Jacobs
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Google CTO: A unifying theory of life, intelligence, and technology
Blaise Agüera y Arcas argues that function defines life more than material does, and that AI belongs in the same story
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How to find the Goldilocks zone of curiosity
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I was in a coffee shop recently when I noticed a half-finished puzzle on a table by the counter. I was in a rush, but I couldn’t resist: I sat down and finished it.
Now imagine three versions of the same situation. In the first...
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OB/GYN, author of The Vagina Bible and The Menopause Manifesto (NYT and Canadian bestsellers), appropriately confident, lasso of truth.
I explain ideas. I write for Big Think. I run the Mini Philosophy social network.
Author: The Digital Reversal. || The Viral Inquisitor. || Digital Future in the Rearview Mirror. || Postjournalism and the death of newspapers. || Human as media. // I study media and everything.
Hypercurious :) Neuroscientist, founder of Ness Labs & author of Tiny Experiments, a guide to living a more experimental life.
Executive editor at Big Think
Francesca Tighinean is a psychology educator with over 3 million followers, host of The Francesca Psychology Podcast, and an upcoming Hay House author.
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