More than three years ago, coinciding with OpenAI’s launch of the GPT-4 large language model, I wrote a post about the rise of artificial neural networks and the advance towards superintelligence. …

More than three years ago, coinciding with OpenAI’s launch of the GPT-4 large language model, I wrote a post about the rise of artificial neural networks and the advance towards superintelligence. …

The law of unintended consequences posits that, given the complexity of natural and social systems, intelligent action aimed at a certain goal always has unexpected and unintended effects…

The Englishman Julian Barbour is a physicist unaffiliated with academia who has spent almost half a century reflecting, from his Renaissance house in a small village on the outskirts of Oxford, on …

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In his 2010 book Decoding Reality, the theoretical physicist Vlatko Vedral brings up a story by Italo Calvino (The Castle of Crossed Destinies) to illustrate his informational-participatory model o…

(published in Spanish in 2013) Being a free thinker is well worth it, both for the pleasure of thinking for oneself and for the freedom of spirit it brings (even if you happen to be locked behind b…

Los móviles y ciertas aplicaciones digitales son un arma de destrucción masiva de las capacidades cognitivas y relacionales, de la salud mental y democrática

For years, a handful of scientists have been laying the groundwork for an entire revolution in the study of life and intelligence. Unorthodox approaches, such as the conception of living beings as …

Intelligence consists in finding rational and creative shortcuts to obtain solutions or objects that would otherwise be highly improbable, since they would take an eternity to emerge from the limbo…

Intelligence consists in finding rational and creative shortcuts to obtain solutions or objects that would otherwise be highly improbable, since they would take an eternity to emerge from the limbo…

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Neither the fine-tuning of the Universe (its parameters have exactly the right values—not one billionth more, not one billionth less—to make it possible), nor its extraordinarily improbable beginni…

“There is nothing general except names,” the philosopher John Stuart Mill said. It is obvious that the universal concept ‘cat’ does not exist in space-time, only individual …

Neither the fine-tuning of the Universe (its parameters have exactly the right values—not one billionth more, not one billionth less—to make it possible), nor its extraordinarily improbable beginni…

Es una referencia del animalismo y un precursor del altruismo efectivo, ayudar a los demás de manera que se logre el máximo impacto posible. Elegido por ‘Ideas’ como uno de los pensadores más influyen...

The question of "what is life?" has challenged scientists and philosophers for centuries, producing an array of definitions that reflect both the mystery of its emergence and the diversity of discipli...

Psychedelic substances remain surrounded by the same aura of mystery that enveloped them when they were used by ancient American shamans or by the initiates of Eleusis, home in Ancient Greece to th…

Psychedelic substances remain surrounded by the same aura of mystery that enveloped them when they were used by ancient American shamans or by the initiates of Eleusis, home in Ancient Greece to th…

(después de una conversación con el viejo amigo Samuel Rodríguez Navarro en el día de su cumpleaños) En un centro escolar del año 561...

40 años sin Jorge Luis Borges, uno de los escritores más citados por científicos y filósofos contemporáneos

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If an intelligent extraterrestrial with absolutely no prior knowledge of our planet were to come across a Boeing 747, they would consider two possibilities: either it had been designed by an intell…

There’s a narrow way to conceive reality, limiting it to what is presented to our senses (or rather, what is fabricated by our brain from sensory information) in a state of wakefulness and no…

The philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce conceived of evolution as a process through which Platonic forms are instantiated and developed in the physical world, not only informing living beings but al…

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The philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce conceived of evolution as a process through which Platonic forms are instantiated and developed in the physical world, not only informing living beings but al…

The philosopher Charles Sanders Peirce conceived of evolution as a process through which Platonic forms are instantiated and developed in the physical world, not only informing living beings but al…

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Andrés Rebolledo, director de la Organización de Energía Latinoamericana: "La relación con España es estratégica"

Many of us will always be grateful to the great Bruce Springsteen for his music and his lyrics. Despite being a person repeatedly struck by depression, not a few of his best songs are an invitation…

Many of us will always be grateful to the great Bruce Springsteen for his music and his lyrics. Despite being a person repeatedly struck by depression, not a few of his best songs are an invitation…

(Reading an initial chapter of Nexus by Yuval Harari, in which the concept of information is analyzed, reminded me of this post I wrote 7 years ago in Spanish) A tree with withered leaves, a stone …

(See here a talk between Faggin and Gómez-Marín) Federico Faggin (b. 1942), an Italian-American scientist famous for inventing the first microprocessor, had a mystical experience in his late fortie…

Synthese - Free will discourse is primarily centred around the thesis of determinism. Much of the literature takes determinism as its starting premise, assuming it true “for the sake of...

The Englishman Julian Barbour is a physicist unaffiliated with academia who has spent almost half a century reflecting, from his Renaissance house in a small village on the outskirts of Oxford, on …