Visual representation of the framework for how the scale and distance afforded by the internet distorts our evolved reactions for compassion for victims and punishment of transgressors in moral ...

On more than one occasion I have made the passing comment that “the Darwinist has no answer to ...” this or that phenomenon. For instance, we have said that the Darwinist has no answer for the ...

Evolutionary theory also sheds light on sexual morality, in particular our attitudes toward incest. The logic is simple: Because kin share so many genes, they are more likely than non-kin to share ...

Last month in San Francisco, AI entrepreneur Dr. Ben Goertzel invited me to publicly debate him on the future of machine intelligence at his event, The Ten Reckonings of AGI. Goertzel is best known ...