Tag: materialism

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __trending, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Behind and Beyond the Brain Symposium, brains, Christof Koch, Closer to Truth, cognition, David Chalmers, emotions, filter model, hard problem of consciousness, Human Immortality (book), Integrated information theory, J. L. Saver, J. Rabin, materialism, mental awareness, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, paradoxical lucidity, Peter Kreeft, reality, receptors, reducing valve, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Science Daily, sensations, senses, terminal lucidity, thoughts, universe, William James}

What if the Brain Is a Filter?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 17, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

The idea would provides insight into one of the most significant characteristics of near-death experiences, the extraordinary lucidity that experiencers report. Read More ›

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Author
George Montañez

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, artifacts, Buddy the Elf, C. S. Lewis, cells, Claude, Claude Delusion, Donald Knuth, evolution, femme bot, intelligence, intelligent causes, intelligent design, large language models, Lego blocks, materialism, Nik Prassas, Richard Dawkins, symbolic artifacts, thinking, tokens, Transformer blocks, Turing test, unintelligent causes}

Why Dawkins’s Argument for AI Is an Argument for God

_{George Montañez
July 15, 2026

Computational Sciences, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

If step-by-step mechanical explanations do not rule out creation by intelligent agents, then I’m not sure we can dismiss the evidence for design in nature. Read More ›

Reading hobby learning animal curious monkey book

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
July 15, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithm, artificial intelligence, atheism, blind processes, chemistry, Darwinism, ID the Future, illusion, intelligence, intelligent design, logic, materialism, physics, programmers, reason, Rebekah Valerius, statistical patterns, syntax, technology, truth}

Mind Over Matter: Darwin, AI, and the Future of Reason

_{Andrew McDiarmid
July 15, 2026

Computational Sciences, Evolution, Intelligent Design

3}

If our minds are the product of a blind and aimless process, what reason do we have to believe what we think? Read More ›

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Author
Thomas E. Woodward

Date
July 7, 2026

Categories
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, acetylation, atheists, biological codes, biology, Cambridge University, DNA, DNA tag maps, evolutionists, George Church, Harvard University, histone tag maps, histones, human cell, Human Genome Project, intelligence, intelligent design, iPhone, materialism, methylation, Michael Behe, Mind and Cosmos, Nanoarchaeum equitans, Oxford University Press, Peter Lipton, phosphorylation, Robert Prinz, specified complexity, Stephen Meyer, supercomputer, Thomas Nagel, uniformitarianism, William Dembski}

Biological Codes, and More: Evolutionists Scramble for an Adequate Cause

_{Thomas E. Woodward and James P. Gills, MD
July 7, 2026

Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

9}

Much of the information essential to cellular function isn’t editable via random genetic mutations in DNA and is thus inaccessible to the Darwinian mechanism. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 26, 2026

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Amazon Prime, Aristotle, Asa Gray, beauty, beauty problem, Charles Darwin, consciousness, cosmos, David Berlinski, Design Inference, documentary, Douglas Axe, flowers, Francis Crick, George MacDonald, George Steiner, Heraclitus, materialism, ocellus, Parts of Animals, peacock, peacock’s tail, peahen, planets, Richard Sternberg, Robert Sheldon, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Sarah Salviander, sexual selection, solar system, stars, Stephen Meyer, Stratford Caldecott, The Descent of Man, The Flower-Angels, The Story of Everything, Timothy McGrew}

The Beauty Enigma: It “Seems to Be Reaching Out to Us”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 26, 2026

Arts, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

5}

The beauty of the cosmos and of nature generally can't be explained in materialist terms. Or more positively, they prompt an inference to design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 22, 2026

Categories
Cosmology
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Dean Rickles, dual aspect monism, fine-tuning, Graham Phillips, illusion, John Archibald Wheeler, Leonard Susskind, many universes, materialism, materialists, multiverse, Paul Davies, Princeton University, quantum mechanics, Sydney University, Templeton Ideas, theoretical physicists, universe}

Quantum Mechanics Has Destroyed Classical Materialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 22, 2026

Cosmology, Physics, Scientific Reasoning

5}

Whatever this fundamental level of reality that combines mind and matter is, it is — by definition — deeper than human thought can reach. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 19, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animism, Annaka Harris, cabbage, Cambridge University, chauvinism, consciousness, dandelions, Hard Problem, human consciousness, information, lunacy, materialism, Natalie Lawrence, neurons, Paco Calvo, panpsychism, philosophy, Planta Sapiens, plants, ResearchGate, Sam Harris, slime molds, vertebrates}

The Latest: Plants as “Non-Human Persons”

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 19, 2026

Life Sciences, Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

5}

The need to see humans as equivalent to animals has now spread to the need to see us as equivalent to plants. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
June 8, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Zoology
Tagged
, algorithms, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, automatons, bees, brains, Cartesianism, ChatGPT, consciousness, Greek, humans, hype, materialism, neuroscience, philosophers, rational faculty, rational minds, Science Daily, Singularity}

Of Bee Brains, ChatGPT, and Fists of Ham

_{Jonathan Witt
June 8, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Zoology

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Happily, a recent philosopher has provided some intellectual tools for avoiding the sort of ham-fisted either/or approach to consciousness. Read More ›

Woman with straitjacket, dark background

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Date
June 5, 2026

Categories
Philosophy of Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astrophysicists, biologists, consciousness, dualism, emergence, Güneş Taylor, Institute for Arts and Ideas, Lisa Feldman Barrett, materialism, Michael Levin, neuroscientists, perspectival view, physicists, religion, spacetime, Stephen Hawking, straightjacket, superstition, third-person view, universe, University of Rochester, Werner Heisenberg, YouTube channels}

Scientists Ask, “Is Materialism Holding Science Back?”

_{Science & Culture
June 5, 2026

Philosophy of Science, Scientific Reasoning

3}

Is materialism a straightjacket? The very fact that a respectable conversation is going on around this question tells us that something has changed. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
June 3, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, air, Bible, communication, earth, equations, food, Genesis, George MacDonald, humans, illusion, intelligent design, laws of nature, life, materialism, materialistic worldview, matter, meaning, movements, particles, perception, Periodic Table, reality, Stephen L. Talbott, The New Atlantis, theism, universe}

Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

_{Eric Hedin
June 3, 2026

Faith & Science, Physics

5}

The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. Read More ›