Issue_69

14 articles
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    Here’s How We’ll Know an AI Is Conscious

    Zombies are supposed to be capable of asking any question about the nature of experience. It’s worth wondering, though, how a person or machine devoid of experience could reflect on experience it doesn’t have.Photograph by Ars Electronica / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The Australian philosopher David […]
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    The Math That Takes Newton Into the Quantum World

    How a math professor learned to stop worrying and love algebraic geometry.
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    How Our Universe Could Emerge as a Hologram

    Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine’s Abstractions blog. Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The fabric of space and time is widely believed by physicists to be emergent, stitched out of quantum threads according to an unknown pattern. And for 22 years, they’ve had a toy model of how emergent space-time can work: a theoretical […]
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    How the Universe Remembers Information

    A “memory matrix” might solve Stephen Hawking’s black-hole paradox.
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    The Case for Being Skeptical of Moral Outrage

    If, as the research shows, our moral outrage is highly sensitive to actions but not consequences, we might want to treat feelings of moral outrage—whether others’ or our own—skeptically. Photograph by Vjacheslav_Kozyrev / Flickr Nautilus Members enjoy an ad-free experience. Log in or Join now . The episode last month at the Lincoln Memorial, involving […]