Creating life in the lab
Fake things are becoming real, and that’s just the start.
Even as a child, I didn’t like the story of the Blind Men and the Elephant. Eventually I came to loathe it. (I was…
Sometimes I think humans must have some sort of a “certainty gene.” We decide we’re certain about…
I am out early this morning, before sunrise. Frost on the grass. Something to my left: quickly, a blur, movement, a plume…
To look out my window one would not know anything is amiss. The grass is growing green. The visiting…
The emerging AI chatbots have invited comparisons to “The Bomb” — the atomic bomb deployed in the Second…
Some say consciousness is what makes us human. But animals have it too.