Themed Articles

What’s Stopping Us Achieving Artificial General Intelligence?

A. Efimov, D. Dubrovsky, and F. Matveev explore how the development of AI is limited by the perceived need to understand language and be embodied.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

Can Machines Be Conscious?

Sebastian Sunday Grève and Yu Xiaoyue find an unexpected way in which the answer is ‘yes’.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

Ergoing Nowhere

Noah Harris says Descartes failed to find absolute foundations for knowledge.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

Descartes & Stupidity

Trevor Pateman asks: stupidity – essence, or accident?
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

How Descartes Inspired Science

Kanan Purkayastha has both general and special theories about how the master rationalist inspired modern empirical science.
[Issue 155: April/May 2023]

One Logic, Or Many?

Owen Griffiths and A.C. Paseau try to count them.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

Humans, the Believing Animals

Aristotle says humans are rational animals but Kevin Currie-Knight argues that our capacity for belief is even more fundamental.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

World Wide Web or Library of Babel?

Marco Nuzzaco wants us to see the net as something more than a library.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

Postmodern Flames In Brazil

Marcos A. Raposo asks if postmodernism can survive science, and vice versa.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

6 Signs You’ve Taken The Blue Pill

Lewis Vaughn tells you how you can know whether you’re a conspiracy theorist.
[Issue 154: February/March 2023]

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