When the same AI system that flawlessly analyzed financial documents yesterday fabricates contract clauses today, we face more than a technical glitch. We confront the fundamental barrier preventing ...

If the 2024 electoral outcome demonstrates anything enduring, it is this: So much for classical liberalism being on the “wrong side of history.” The American progressive movement has for decades ...

essentially ‘free’ human nature (liberum abitrium), the loss of human liberty (libertas) to our sinful nature, God’s grace and atonement for the Elect / Saints. for God’s omnipotence and ...

Mr. Singal is the author of “The Quick Fix: Why Fad Psychology Can’t Cure Our Social Ills.” Long before Reddit users discovered the firefighter Les McBurney, humans were fascinated by the idea that a ...

IN considering the life of man in history or in contemporary social relations there are two hypotheses open to us. We may postulate that, from the largest sweep of the historic process down to the ...

It seems like we have free will. Most of the time, we are the ones who choose what we eat, how we tie our shoelaces and what articles we read on The Conversation. Sapolsky summarises the latest ...

The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is basically the same as that espoused by those Snickers commercials: You’re not you when you’re hungry. Except ...

Can free agency be compatible with determinism? Compatibilists argue that the answer is yes, and it has been suggested that the computer science principle of "computational irreducibility" sheds light ...