AI sentience 1
Blake Lemoine and LaMDA, trillions of words, mute idols, and the God who speaks
Tag: personhood
Embryology 2
Psalm 139, reconsidering ‘ensoulment’, the language of right and wrong, and co-operation with evil
Prenatal screening 2
The prohibition on soothsaying, transcending genetic determinism, a client-technician relationship and Heidi Crowter’s joyful self-advocacy
Talk: Science, modernity and the post-human
Are our brains little more than computing machines made out of meat?
Review: ‘Alone together – Why we expect more from technology and less from each other’ by Sherry Turkle
How are new technologies shaping us as humans, for good or for ill?