[The Mad, Mad, Mad World of Climatism, Steve Goreham, New Lenox Books, 2012, vii+301 pp, paperback and Kindle (see links following review)] The theme of this book is the unsound science behind “global warming” and “climate change”, and the irrational behavior that it has...

Along with some other major leaders and many popular pundits around the world, Pope Francis has increasingly emphasized the dangers of man-made (anthropogenic) global warming. He even seems quite frequently to make it our top spiritual priority to respond to this threat. Unfortunately, it is even...

[Part 4 of Technology and the limitations of artificial intelligence] Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a trendy label for a class of computer-based technologies that seek to replicate or replace human knowledge and ways of knowing. Extravagant claims have been made for AI, leading to...

[Part 3 of Technology and the limitations of artificial intelligence] Human Knowing and how it differs from AI Most AI researchers concede that computers are not and cannot be sentient in the sense of perceiving things as real. “Sentience” means awareness of the world as...

[Part 2 of Technology and the limitations of artificial intelligence] Why does AI fail so spectacularly? To answer this question, we must look at how computers operate, and how that limits what they can do. In order to do things that manifest “intelligence”, any AI system has to be...

[Part 1 of Technology and the limitations of artificial intelligence] Overview Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become a controversial and disturbing subject today. There are many contributing factors to this lamentable state of affairs, but unfounded and erroneous claims made for Artificial...