Could Big Data, which can factor in millions of pieces of information, help us study the origin of life? Biochemist Fazale Rana tells us that the Polish Academy of Sciences has developed a computer algorithm called Alchemy that came up with some “rather intriguing results.”

Neuroscience has a lot to contribute to the debate over free will, and all of it supports the reality of free will. There isn’t a shred of neuroscientific evidence that contradicts the reality of free will.

With Tesla’s new “full self-driving,” Tesla is actually telling drivers that they have to be more cautious than usual. In fact, “full self-driving” actually demands more attention from the driver and makes the driving task more dangerous. Many of us are left wondering what automation is supposed to accomplish here. An increase in the numbers of nervous drivers?

Naturalism, the idea that physical nature is all there is, can lead us down some strange paths. In the words of prominent philosopher Daniel Dennett and prominent biologist Michael Levin, both of Tufts University, the road to “biology’s next great horizon” is the attempt to “understand cells, tissues and organisms as agents with agendas (even if unthinking ones).”

In Gaming AI, George Gilder sets out six assumptions generally shared by those who believe that, in a Singularity sometime soon, we will merge with our machines.