• Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution

  Hawks J, Wang E. T., Cochran G. M., Harpending H. C., and Moyzis R. K., Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution, PNAS (early online) doi:10.1073/pnas.0707650104

  tags: evolution, human-evolution, grue, azb

• Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of the Human Mind

  Subtle refinements in brain architecture, rather than large-scale alterations, make us smarter than other animals. (Scientific American)

  tags: evolution, intelligence, grue, azb

• Which Machine Is Conscious?

  Let us suppose that the laboratories of Marvin Minsky and Rodney Brooks get funded well into the middle of the next century. Each succeeds spectacularly at its stated goal, and completely stays off the other's turf. The Splintered Mind

  tags: mind, consciousness, grue

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