Brent Wiseman, of Salina, published his first book, "Causal Happenstance," a look at the philosophical idea of determinism ...

When the same AI system that flawlessly analyzed financial documents yesterday fabricates contract clauses today, we face more than a technical glitch. We confront the fundamental barrier preventing ...

The familiar expression “hindsight is always 20/20” affirms that looking back on a behavior enables you to understand what previously you weren't cognizant of. And that regardless of whether you could ...

On the basis of three physical axioms, we prove that if the choice of a particular type of spin 1 experiment is not a function of the information accessible to the experimenters, then its outcome is ...

IN considering the life of man in history or in contemporary social relations there are two hypotheses open to us. We may postulate that, from the largest sweep of the historic process down to the ...

How Gear Determinism Became the Defining Cultural Marker in Skiing The basal nature of how we pine for gear may be nothing new, but the way in which we are marketed to certainly is, creating a brave ...

Each of us belongs to a world of cause and effect, governed by natural laws. Author and neuroscientist Robert Sapolsky argues that our actions, like everything else, are fully determined by conditions ...

Our last Insights puzzle explored how a smooth, random distribution of objects arises in a classic, deterministic machine called a Galton board or bean machine. We examined the inner workings of this ...