The Multiverse According to Ben

In my 1993 book "The Structure of Intelligence" (SOI), I presented a formal definition of intelligence as "the ability to ach...

One more sociopolitical/futurist observation ... If you're not aware of David Brin's Transparent Society concept, you should read t...

All in all, the conclusion I'm coming to lately ... as reflected in my last two blog posts, as well as in some other thinking ... is tha...

This is another post on political, economic and futurist themes ... starting out with a reflection on a bogus patent, and winding up with a ...

In a recent email dialogue with my dad, I found myself spouting off again about the possible causes of the recent financial crisis ... and ...

The dichotomy between localized and globalized (distributed) memory in the brain and world is pretty much bullcrap. For a long time I've...

Let C = consciousness P = physical reality Then, the various theories of consciousness may be placed into 11 categories: C and P are the sam...

While visiting my father a couple weeks ago, he talked a bit about what he sees as one of the core ideas of religion: the notion of some ki...

This blog post consists of some musings that arose to me a few weeks ago on reading the multi-author blog Overcoming Bias . They were not t...

Empathy: the ability to feel each others’ feelings. It lies at the core of what makes us human. But how important will it be to the artifi...

Reading over the conversation I had (with Abram Demski) in the Comments to a prior blog post http://multiverseaccordingtoben.blogspot.com/20...

I had a brief but influential (for me: I'm sure he quickly forgot it) correspondence with the philosopher-of-science Paul Feyerabend whe...

A political reporter emailed me the other day asking my opinion on the role AI technology played in the recent financial crisis, and what th...

When I first learned about uncomputable numbers, I was profoundly disturbed. One of the first things you prove about uncomputable numbers, ...