Philosophy

Philosophy

Examine life’s biggest questions, from ethics to existence, with curiosity and critical thinking.

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If AI is modeled only on human intelligence, will it inherit only human ways of seeing the world?
As the Universe ages, it continues to gravitate, form stars, and expand. And yet, all this will someday end. Do we finally understand how?
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Welcome to The Nightcrawler — a weekly newsletter from Eric Markowitz covering tech, innovation, and long-term thinking.
From here on Earth, looking farther away in space means looking farther back in time. So what are distant Earth-watchers seeing right now?
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Philosophers rarely change their minds. These thinkers did — often at social and professional cost.
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Proposed over 2000 years ago by Democritus, the word atom literally means uncuttable. Revived in 1803, today's "atoms" can indeed be split.