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In this excerpt from "The Story of the Mammals in 25 Discoveries," author Donald R. Prothero looks at a time when the idea of extinction was blasphemous.

Can machines reason? Of course, it depends on what you mean by reason. At Aeon, philosophy professor Sasha Mudd explains why human reason is so much more than what machines can do: A few months ago, I sat in a packed university auditorium listening to a celebrated computer scientist explain the brilliance of large language models (LLMs). These systems optimise, he said. And they improve at optimisation on the basis of past experience. He paused. That, he said with a smile, is intelligence. The audience nodded along approvingly. Meanwhile, a philosophical alarm bell began sounding in my head.

Exceptional scientists elected as Fellows of the