Tag: "Darwin & evolution"

We’re as Smart as the Universe Gets

James Miles argues, among other things, that E.T. will be like Kim Kardashian, and that the real threat of advanced AI has been misunderstood.
[Issue 164: October/November 2024: Thoughts on Thought]

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903)

by Terence Green
[Issue 156: June/July 2023: Philosophical Haiku]

How Did We Get To Be So Different?

Raymond Tallis grasps the grip our hands have on our humanity.
[Issue 151: August/September 2022: Tallis in Wonderland]

The Astrobiological Cat

Predrag Slijepcevic questions standard views of intelligence by thinking on an evolutionary scale.
[Issue 135: December 2019 / January 2020: Articles]

When Paths Diverge

Jason Xenopoulos asks if accelerating technological change and the widening gap between rich and poor mean an imminent evolutionary divergence for humanity.
[Issue 109: August/September 2015: Science & Morality]

“That Mystery of Mysteries”

Toni Vogel Carey on a forgotten solution to the question of the origin of new species.
[Issue 105: November/December 2014: Articles]

How Darwin Ruined My Sex Life

Anika Benkov uncovers a question that’s been left unanswered.
[Issue 105: November/December 2014: Articles]

Bill Stott’s Cartoon

by Bill Stott
[Issue 102: May/June 2014: Cartoon]

Consilience

Toni Vogel Carey on discovering interconnections.
[Issue 95: March/April 2013: Articles]

Between Dawkins & God

John Holroyd negotiates a middle way between these two much-lauded figures.
[Issue 86: September/October 2011: Articles]