things and creatures, conscience and personhood
Yesterday I read Jeff VanderMeer’s creepy, disturbing, uncanny, and somehow heart-warming new novel Borne, and it has...
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fleshers and intelligences
I’m not a great fan of Kevin Kelly’s brand of futurism, but this is a great essay by him on the problems...
the masterful diptych of Coroger Zelaznorow
It’s been very interesting for me to re-read — for the first time in 40 years, so who am I kidding, let’s just...
on Adam Roberts’s Bête
This is a book about the difference between being a butcher and being a murderer, if there is a difference This is a...
simplification where it doesn’t belong
This is not a topic to which I can do justice in a single post, or even, I expect, a series of posts, but let me make...
testing intelligence — or testing nothing?
Tim Wu suggests an experiment: A well-educated time traveller from 1914 enters a room divided in half by a curtain. A...
faith and (in) AI
Freddie deBoer: Now people have a variety of ways to dismiss these issues. For example, there’s the notion of...
on the maker ethos
Reading this lovely and rather moving profile of Douglas Hofstadter I was especially taken by this passage on why...