Peter Thiel, who spoke by interactive video to the COSM conference last October, is probably the most remarkable of the Silicon Valley insiders. A fuller version of his discussions with tech philosopher George Gilder has just been released. What makes Thiel unique is that he so much contradicts the Valley stereotype and is certainly not afraid to tell the Valley its faults.

Read an excerpt from John Lennox’s new book, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (Zondervan 2020).

One interesting change in science literature on near-death experiences has been a growing respect. In a recent edition of Scientific American neuroscientist Christof Koch, chief scientist of the Allen Institute for Brain Science doesn’t discount near-death experiences.

Last October, Jay Richards caught up with Bradley Center director Robert J. Marks at COSM 2019 to ask, what are our chances of cheating death? They were responding to futurist Ray Kurzweil’s heady claims that we will merge with computers by 2045 and live on as AI.

Podcaster Lucas Skrobot recently interviewed neurosurgeon Michael Egnor on the difference between the mind and the brain. In the podcast, Dr. Egnor provides a thought experiment to explain that minds must transcend materials—the zombie problem.