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In Ted Chiang's impressive overview of human superintelligence in science fiction, he mentions that John W. Campbell Jr. rejected a story by Vernor Vinge about a character with human superintelligence because no one can write such a story. (Vinge had proposed a sequel to "Bookworm, Run!") The implication: since none of us know what being...
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The first comprehensive, peer-reviewed open access textbook for biological anthropology courses. Produced with support from the Society for Anthropology in Community Colleges (a section of the American Anthropological Association) and a grant from Minnesota State. Available free of charge for use in any setting.
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In my first post in this series, I wrote about the idea that reality is comprised of various "layers," and I raised the question of how, in an evolutionary sense, do we "get" from one layer of reality to another. How did the molecular layer emerge from a universe that (at an early stage) included [...]
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