If you believe that humans are largely programmable, as opposed to being an interesting combination of innate and instinctual knowledge and adaptability to their environment – this leads you to believe that humans can do any job you can find for them. Jobs that are not suitable include – highly pressured human shift work – … [Read more…]

The model of the brain, whereby the wiring system, that is a collection of neurones, generates information, consciousness, creativity, compassion, learns from a single experience, has memories stretching back decades, engages in not just hypothetico-deductive learning but induction and deduction from novel circumstances, and everything that makes us human is, to say the least, far-fetched. … [Read more…]