The Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence

Mission

The mission of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence at Discovery Institute is to explore the benefits as well as the challenges raised by artificial intelligence (AI) in light of the enduring truth of human exceptionalism. People know at a fundamental level that they are not machines. But faulty thinking can cause people to assent to views that in their heart of hearts they know to be untrue. The Bradley Center seeks to help individuals — and our society at large — to realize that we are not machines while at the same time helping to put machines (especially computers and AI) in proper perspective.

Events

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Dr. Michael Egnor to Speak at Cornell University on “The Immortal Mind”

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Cornell University, Myron Taylor Hall
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Dr. Michael Egnor, CSC Senior Fellow and Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at Stony Brook University, will speak at Cornell University on the premise of his new book, The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. This event is sponsored by the Heterodox Academy Campus Community at Cornell University and Chesterton House and is both free and open to the public. To RSVP or to learn more, visit the Cornell events page. A message from the organizers: Although classical philosophers and theologians affirmed the existence and immortality of the human soul, modern neuroscientists generally deny that the soul exists or that it is a proper object for scientific study. The scientific evidence, however, suggests that the soul does exist and that …

Mission

About Walter Bradley

Articles and Podcasts

Absolutist, Prohibitionist, and Luddite? Oh, My!

2001: A Space Odyssey Review Part 7: Space Baby

Why isn’t the AI bubble ‘Common Knowledge’ and Pop?

Will AI Make the World Better or Worse?

Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Hype, Limitations, and Ethics

Artificial Intelligence: Navigating the Hype, Limitations, and Ethics

The Ins and Outs of Scaling Up AI: Dr. Donald Wunsch

Exploring the Immaterial Mind: Insights from Neuroscience and Thomistic Philosophy

Events

Dr. Michael Egnor to Speak at Cornell University on “The Immortal Mind”

Video

The Graphene Moment

Agentic AI-Models are NOT All You Need

Will We Be Haunted by a Non-Hallucinatory AI?

The New Web Paradigm: Verses vs. OpenAI