Guest Thinkers — December 21, 2010

Thanks

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Thanks to all of our readers for writing in with a) humor and b) a horrible mess in an early post by me, which has now been fixed.

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Are religions simply cults that have gone mainstream?

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Can AI write authentic poetry?

Cognitive psychologist and poet Keith Holyoak explores whether artificial intelligence could ever achieve poetic authenticity.

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