How do we know we’re not living in a simulation like The Matrix? Jack Freedom, BristolThe long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical conceptsPost your answers (and new questions) below or send them to nq@theguardian.com. A selection will be published on Sunday. Continue reading…
Now, in addition to these issues I want to highlight a new one. As AIs, like ChatGPT, become more ubiquitous, people might commit a fallacy that we can call The-AI-Knows-Something Fallacy: Anything that the AI tells you must be true…
Jane: Eh? He distinguished Aksu and Lewit from Heidi and Aidan’s case on the basis that: .He went on to observe that the perception of the appellants that the present state of the law devalued them ‘cannot itself constitute or…
“King Vasuratha, strong and fearless, was effulgent as the Sun, and handsome as the Moon. In strength, he was like Sri Vishnu, and in forgiveness like the Earth. Charitable and truthful, King Vasuratha constantly offered loving devotional service to the…
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The Brains Blog is thrilled to feature Gualtiero Piccinini this week, focusing on their new book, Neurocognitive Mechanisms: Explaining Biological Cognition (Oxford). Gualtiero is, of course, the original founder of the Brains Blog! So we welcome Gualtiero back for a…
Impostor syndrome reflects our reality: we’re all impostors to some degree. It’s mistaken only when someone concludes, on the basis of awareness of their pretense, that they’re faking it to a greater degree than others. Getting out the news that…
