From your DNA to what you ate this morning, a lifetime of factors is determining your every move. None of those elements, says Robert Sapolsky, is free will.
In her new memoir, the HAI co-director draws parallels between her immigration story and the rapid development of artificial intelligence. “The journey I’ve been through is so deeply human.”
Political science Professor Josiah Ober’s new book The Civic Bargain aims to turn pessimism about the future of American politics on its head. “It’s never been as bad as this” is simply wrong, he says.
“It is customary to speak of someone having a gender identity, but most of us have many gender feels, which need not pattern together in any particular way,” Stanford philosopher R.A. Briggs writes in a new co-authored book.
The self is not a fixed, innate essence residing within us, but something fluid and socially constructed, social psychologist Brian Lowery argues in a new book.
