
Eric Holloway is a Senior Fellow with the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, and holds a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from Baylor University. A Captain in the United States Air Force, he served in the US and Afghanistan. He is the co-editor of Naturalism and Its Alternatives in Scientific Methodologies.
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How the Father of Information Theory Invented Modern AI
In 1948 Claude Shannon used Andrey Markov’s 1906 process to formulate an appproach that enabled the development of chatbots (large language models)
How Mathematician Kurt Gödel Proved the Unprovable Proposition
He kicked over the mathematical sandcastles of those who proposed a mathematical Theory of Everything
A Thought Experiment on the Mind, the Brain — and AI
In a crowded AI marketplace, a nerd confronts a philosopher on subject of the human mind
What Computers Can’t Know: The Unknown Unknowns

Is True Artificial Intelligence Possible? A Science Perspective
Many will conclude that true AI — AI that thinks like humans — must be possible because we hear so much about it from so many sources
Tech Hype Watch: Do Chatbots Really Understand Things?
Well-known author Robert Wright believes they do but he misunderstands how computers work
How Ancient Philosophers Can Help Design Better Computers
The Kubernetes program, for example, steers groups of computers the way, in the ancient image, a navigator steers a ship
Will Artificial Intelligence Revolutionize Math?
In an article in Nature, mathematician Thomas Fink makes the case that AI can rapidly falsify wrong conjectures. But what about its built-in limitations?
Applying the Theory of Intelligent Design
What are ID's implications for economics, metaphysics, and computer science?
How Could Intelligent Design Help Us In a Conflict?
Well, what would happen if Daffy Duck teams up with Marvin the Martian?
How Is Intentionality Embedded in the Universe?
All efforts to extinguish intentionality and morality only serve to further establish their inescapable reality
Could Our Minds Be Bigger Than Even a Multiverse?
The relationship between information, entropy, and probability suggests startling possibilities. If you find the math hard, a face-in-the-clouds illustration works too
Is Your Mind Bigger Than the Universe? Well, Look At It This Way…
Surprisingly, there is a way to measure the mind that shows it IS bigger than the universe — information
Why Is Theology the Most Important Empirical Science?
Arguing pro or con about the existence of God has resulted in many successful and/or widely accepted theories in science
Can AI Really Start Doing Evil Stuff All By Itself?
We need to first talk to the man in the mirror before we go around blaming transistor circuit boards for what’s wrong in the world
Can There Really Be an Ultimate Happiness Machine?
Technology can do so much. Can it really provide an answer to the eternal human quest for happiness?
AI and the Chinese Room Argument
We still haven't cracked the mystery of human intelligence
“Ghost Work” and the Enduring Necessity of Human Labor
Contrary to popular assumptions, the greater the automation, the greater the need for human labor.