Clarifications on uploading
PZ has written a reply to my post on brain uploading. I think he gets some things definitely wrong, but in this post, I just want to make a few clarifications that I should have made in my original...
View ArticleApparently, PZ didn’t read Sandberg and Bostrom very carefully
So… when I first read PZ’s recent post on uploading, it wasn’t quite clear what his objections were, but I thought maybe he had some good points. But reading his responses in the comments thread, it...
View ArticleNeuroscience basics & some criticism of Eliezer Yudkowsky
I’ve just written a post at LessWrong covering some basics of neuroscience and criticizing a claim by Eliezer Yudkowsky that the brain “just doesn’t really look all that complicated.” If you just want...
View ArticleReal-world science in A Game of Thrones
I’ve been reading the Song of Ice and Fire series (A Game of Thrones to those watching it on HBO), and loving it (except for feeling some parts could’ve been cut to make it shorter). Among other...
View ArticleNeuroscience and the soul
Previously: The problem with asking science to be religion-friendly In his book The Language of God, Francis Collins claims that science is powerless to tell us what happens when we die. When I read...
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