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0 John Horgan is a science journalist who has knocked many scientists over the course of his career and yet stubbornly thinks of himself as a nice guy.

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Who Supervises the Supervisor? A Riff on Machine Learning
WAUWINET, AUGUST 6, 2026. My effort to learn how machines learn has me mulling over
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Hofstadter on Strange Loops, Beauty, Free Will, AI, God, Utopia and Gaza
HOBOKEN, JUNE 21, 2025. Did Douglas Hofstadter discover the strange loop? Or did he create it? Either way, the strange loop, which Hofstadter propounds in Gödel, Escher, Bach and I Am a Strange Loop , may be the deepest idea I've met. It fascinates me, as
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Scientific American Loses Its Bold Leader
HOBOKEN, NOVEMBER 15, 2024. Well before Scientific American 's editor vented her despair over the election, social in justice warriors were bashing the magazine for its political views. Critics include anti-woke bros Jordan Peterson , Charles
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Is God a Strange Loop?
CAMBRIDGE, MA, SEPTEMBER 13, 2024. I recently hobnobbed with a writer, I'll call him Bob, as obsessed with the mind-body problem as I am. The problem concerns, in a narrow sense, how matter makes mind, but it also encompasses the puzzles of consciousness,
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Francis Crick's Depressing Hypothesis
HOBOKEN, JULY 8, 2024. Only flakes and philosophers fretted over consciousness until the late 1980s. Then Francis Crick, co-discoverer of the double helix, declared that consciousness is a legitimate scientific problem that nitty-gritty brain research can
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