Alternative Intelligence: The Other A.I.

Alternative Intelligence: The Other A.I.

Go to https://hensonshaving.com/isaacarthur and enter "isaacarthur" at checkout to get 100 free blades with your purchase. We think very highly of the human brain, after all, it's what lets us think about anything in the first place, but Nature is vast, and our...

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Sentient Planets & World Consciousnesses

Sentient Planets & World Consciousnesses

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur We often imagine that our planet might be a sentient entity - Gaia - but could something like this evolve under known science? And might a conscious world be something we might create in the...

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What is Sentience?

What is Sentience?

Get a free month of Curiosity Stream: https://curiositystream.com/isaacarthur In the future we may encounter or create minds equal to our own, smarter, or somewhere in the gap between human and animal. And yet we still barely understand what concepts like intelligence...

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