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A.I. and the Mind Part 2: The Hard Problem of Consciousness
In the previous episode we looked at what I consider to be the best hope and strongest motivation for the belief that artificial intelligence could o…
2 years, 11 months ago
A.I. and the Mind Part 1: Physical Reductionism
Why do so many people, including academics, believe that it is possible to make a fully intelligent AI? In this episode, Anthony Alberino explores th…
3 years ago
Can artificial intelligence ever really be intelligent? A conversation with Dr. J. T. Bridges.
The topic of artificial intelligence has become a critical one lately. There is a ton of chatter about AI right now; it has become one of the most pr…
3 years ago
What is Philosophy? The Handmaiden of Theology
There was a popular saying that was a kind of mantra in the Middle Ages that went like this: "Theology is the queen of the sciences and philosophy is…
3 years ago
What is Philosophy? The Love of Wisdom
As I said in the previous episode, many contemporary philosophers do not find the literal meaning of the term 'philosophy' (lit. the love of wisdom) …
3 years, 1 month ago
What is Philosophy? Introduction to Philosophy
So, what is philosophy anyway? In this introductory episode we take a look at the nature of philosophy, its characteristics, and its various fields. …
3 years, 1 month ago
Faith and Reason: The Light of Faith
It’s instructive to think about human reason as a kind of light. Light enables our eyes to have access to the world––it illuminates things so that th…
3 years, 1 month ago
Faith and Reason: Reasonable Faith
Recently I was out of town and away from my local church and I was watching a sermon on tv being delivered by a local pastor from the city in which I…
3 years, 2 months ago
Faith and Reason: Supernatural Faith
My intention in the last two episodes has been to disabuse us of the idea that faith and reason are somehow fundamentally at odds with one another or…
3 years, 2 months ago
Faith and Reason: What is Faith?
Last time we looked at defective view of faith, which is the idea that faith is a kind of noncognitive, irrational, and emotional activity that is en…
3 years, 2 months ago