The physicist Antony Valentini recently argued in IAI News that quantum mechanics is a straightforward—though incomplete—description of material reality. Today, philosopher and former Director of ...

Some suspect that AI could lead to mass social upheaval, akin to the Luddite riots in response to nineteenth-century automation. However, given that AI supports some jobs whilst undermining others, it ...

We believed that freedom would do the work of equality, that once women could make their own choices, the rest would take care of itself. But studies show that the greater the gender equality in a ...

Søren Kierkegaard claimed that a self is not a static object, but something one must become, by struggling through distinct, often incompatible modes of existence. Author of Bob Dylan and the Spheres ...

Artificial intelligence is getting increasingly good at solving mathematical problems. A few days ago, OpenAI reported that one of its models had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven ...

Roger Penrose argued that human thought does things no computer can, so the mind must make use of non-computable quantum mechanics. The idea remains fringe. Most scientists think that in warm, wet ...

Many view the questions of consciousness as fundamentally unanswerable. But evolutionary biologist Eva Jablonka argues that by studying the evolutionary origins of consciousness, we can better ...

Gravity is likely the force we are all most familiar with. Yet, scientifically, it remains the most mysterious. The standard theories we have of gravity simply cannot make sense of things like the ...

We are often guided by a gut sense of good and evil. But where does that feeling come from? Psychologist Jordan Theriault-Brown argues it has its roots in how a brain manages the uncertainty of the ...

We think that the future follows the past; causes preceed effects. But theoretical physicist Avshalom Elitzur argues that quantum physics alters our conception of time and causation: a measurement ...

Every scientific experiment requires an observer; every measurement is made by one. But the observer itself remains elusive. Andrew T. Jaffe uses the example of a scientist within a dream who can ...

We often see evolutionary theory as the enemy of religion. But in Darwin’s day, many scientists thought otherwise. Neo-Darwinism, today championed by atheists like Richard Dawkins, was founded by a ...