What Makes Us Unique in the Age of AI

Neil D. Lawrence

Starmus VII: Starmus Earth, Bratislava, Slovakia

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For sale: baby shoes, never worn

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
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  • book: The Atomic Human
  • twitter: @lawrennd
  • The Atomic Human pages Blue Marble (photograph) 367 , Apollo 11 202-210, Earhart, Amelia 200–205, Gilruth, Bob 190-192, National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) 163–168, atomic human, the 13, Colossus (computer) 76–79, 91, 103, 108, 124, 130, 142–143, 149, 173–176, 199, 231–232, 251, 264, 267, 290, 380, embodiment factor 13, 29, 35, 79, 87, 105, 197, 216-217, 249, 269, 353, 369, Michelangelo, The Creation of Adam 7-9, 31, 91, 105–106, 121, 153, 206, 216, 350, baby shoes 368, cuneiform 337, 360, 390, Kuhn, Thomas: The Structure of Scientific Revolutions 295–299, Blake, William Newton 121–123, Blake, William Newton 121–123, 258, 260, 283, 284, 301, 306, Cicero and culture 20-21, MONIAC 232-233, 266, 343, human-analogue machine (HAMs) 343-347, 359-359, 365-368, Garden of Eden 350-351, Blake, William Elohim Creating Adam 121, 217–18, Human evolution rates 98-99, Psychological representation of Ecologies 323-327.
  • podcast: The Talking Machines
  • newspaper: Guardian Profile Page
  • blog: http://inverseprobability.com

Lawrence, N.D., 2017. Living together: Mind and machine intelligence. arXiv.
Scally, A., 2016. Mutation rates and the evolution of germline structure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 371. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2015.0137