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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese, Chinese Room argument, computers, consciousness, COSM, George Gilder, Gottfried Leibniz, Jay Richards, John Searle, machines, Michael Denton, Moore’s law, organisms, Ray Kurzweil, Stanford University, Thomas Ray, Turing Machine, Venice}

Artificial General Intelligence: Machines vs. Organisms

_{William A. Dembski
February 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It may seem that I’m picking too much on Ray Kurzweil. But he and I have been crossing paths for a long time. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan Turing, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, Bertrand Russell, California, Christianity, computational power, elementary particles, eternity, humans, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, The Design Inference, theology}

Artificial General Intelligence: Digital vs. Traditional Immortality

_{William A. Dembski
February 1, 2024

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gregory of Nyssa taught that eternity for humanity is an unending progression in the knowledge of God. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 31, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial intelligence, Bertrand Russell, chess, Elon Musk, environments, Los Angeles, machines, Robert J. Marks II, self-driving cars, software, Tesla, West Virginia}

Artificial General Intelligence: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

_{William A. Dembski
January 31, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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The worry is — and it’s a legitimate worry — that our environments will increasingly be altered to accommodate AI. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aboutness, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, autism, B. F. Skinner, ChatGPT, chess, Elon Musk, Erik Larson, G.K. Chesterton, Go (game), human bodies, large language models, machines, Noam Chomsky, rabbits, René Descartes, self-driving cars, Tesla, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, words}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus

_{William A. Dembski
January 30, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), Arthur C. Clarke, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Erika DeBenedictis, Garden of Eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, large language models, Old Testament, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Time Machine, Yuval Harari}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

_{William A. Dembski
January 28, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, Genesis, Greek, Heaven, Hebrew, humans, Isaiah, Neuralink, New Testament, Old Testament, OpenAI, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Altman, Skynet, Ten Commandments, The Matrix, The Singularity is Near, Tower of Babel}

Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction

_{William A. Dembski
January 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Idols are always frauds because they substitute a lesser for a greater, demanding reverence for the lesser at the expense of the greater. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Being as Communion, belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, mind, neuroscience, persuasion, reality, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

_{William A. Dembski
December 27, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Philosophy
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, "survival of the fittest", Alvin Plantinga, Barbara Forrest, brain, C.S. Lewis, censorship, Charles Darwin, Christian colleges, Christianity, cosmologists, goodness, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, materialism, monkey, National Association of Scholars, Northwestern University, Paul Gross, physical laws, post-truth, Richard Dawkins, scientific materialism, Steven Pinker, William Graham, woke ideology, worldview}

How Scientific Materialism Begot Woke Ideology

_{William A. Dembski
December 11, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Philosophy, Reproductive Science

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I’m seeing people like Krauss assume the role as champions of traditional academic values (reason, merit, free discourse) against the barbarian hordes. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 28, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, coincidence, deception, Design Inference, Gregor Mendel, honesty, improbability, New York Times, peas, plagiarism, probability, protocols, specification, UC San Diego}

Mendel’s Peas and More: Inferring Data Falsification in Science

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 28, 2023

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Physical Sciences

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What keeps scientific fraud in check is our ability to detect it, and it’s the design inference that does the detecting. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 27, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atheism, biological systems, chance, Charles Darwin, Climbing Mount Improbable, Darwinian mechanism, Darwinians, evolution, intelligent design, luck, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, pattern, probabilistic resources, probability, random, Richard Dawkins, specified complexity, target, The Blind Watchmaker, The Design Inference, theists, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

Natural Selection as the Great Designer Substitute

_{William A. Dembski and Winston Ewert
November 27, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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In this way, the majority of evolutionary biologists, insofar as they understand the design inference at all, rationalize it away. Read More ›