Planetary Sapience by Benjamin Bratton “The Earth has very recently evolved a smart exoskeleton, a distributed sensory organ and cognitive layer capable of calculating things like: How old is the planet?” _...Read More_

>"The smartest people on Earth have a surprising lack of curiosity."Beyond the corrosive effects of any single way tech thinks about individuals or _...Read More_

"Once upon a time, the American people could actually rely on their political and cultural leaders to have at least some basic adherence to facts and logic and reason. After all, that was why they were leaders, because they helped us to _...Read More_

The Kunstverein Braunschweig has dedicated an exhibition to the Afro-German philosopher Amo Afer. In the interest of post-colonial canon shifting, Amo's philosophy is made the subject of artistic discussion here. The European-Enlightenment _...Read More_

>"As machine learning continues to develop, the intuition that thinking necessarily precedes learning — much less that humans alone can learn — should wane."

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