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Oct 21
Our fall issue is here! Made In Our Image explores the philosophies of AI and what they reveal about us, with @dioscuri, @mer__edith, @max_spero_, @philosophyminis and more. Get the magazine: bigthink.com/membership/?ut…
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By the end of the 20th century, physicists thought they knew the universe’s fate: it would expand forever, its galaxies drifting into isolation. Astrophysicist Ethan Siegel (@StartsWithABang) explains why new measurements suggest dark energy may not be constant after all. Read it
Cosmology’s oldest question: How the universe will end
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A sex strike to end a war is the plot of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, first staged in 411 BC. Big Think’s Scotty Hendricks picks four ancient Greek comedies, including The Clouds and Menander’s Dyskolos, that still hold up today. Read it here:
4 hilarious ancient Greek comedies — that still hold up today
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Nov 2
In 1886, Friedrich Nietzsche wrote that humans are “the yet-undefined animal.” As AI matches trait after trait we once called uniquely human, philosopher Pia Lauritzen argues that what sets us apart is our need to define who we want to be. Read it here:
The need that makes humans unique in the age of AI
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Nov 2
What is life? | Paul Davies
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