Category: Applied Sciences | Page 17 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, arms, body parts, culture, Daily Mail, Due Process Clause, legs, medicine, mental illness, personal autonomy, spinal cord, transgender}

Here It Comes: First Transgenderism, Next Transableism

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 5, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Why is it not also appropriate to cut off unwanted arms or snip spinal cords if that brings emotional relief? Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Technology
Tagged
, biotechnology, China, Communists, death, despair, Falun Gong, hope, immortality, life-extension, organs, Orthodox Christians, political prisoners, Russia, technology, transhumanism, transhumanists, tyranny, Vladimir Putin}

Xi and Putin: Tyranny and Transhumanism

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September 4, 2025

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Transhumanism is mostly a materialistic wail of despair in the night, a desperate quest for hope for those who are terrified that death leads to obliteration. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Arts
Biology
Intelligent Design
Technology
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, artificial intelligence, biochemists, cell phones, computers, David Klinghoffer, DNA, electrical engineering, engineering, genome, intelligence, intelligent design, Internet, life, organisms, Plato's Revenge, programming, radios, Richard Sternberg, smart phones, Stephen Iacoboni, technology, violin, Wendell Berry, William Shakespeare}

Biology, Like Technology, Requires “Something More”

_{Eric Hedin
September 4, 2025

Arts, Biology, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Even when formed to perfection, a violin will not “hale souls out of men’s bodies” unless a master musician draws the bow across the strings. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 3, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, calculations, computer science, Connecticut, Darwinism, evolution, extracellular matrix, intelligent design, learning, Microsoft, Stephen Meyer, Wikipedia}

An Intelligent Design Addendum to AI Horror in Connecticut

_{David Klinghoffer
September 3, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design, Technology

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Once the AI determines your preferred viewpoint, it will tell you what the algorithm "thinks" that you want to hear. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, disease, doctors, equity, healing, health insurance, healthcare, Journal of Medical Ethics, medicine, patients, technology, trans identity, transhumanists}

Next: “Digital Twins” as a Matter of “Equity”?

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 2, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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Medicine is no longer just about treating disease, healing injuries, and promoting physical wellness. Read More ›

Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Medicine
Tagged
, biological information, body, coherence, death, Discovery Institute Press, engineering, engineers, Howard Glicksman, human body, interdependence, life, medicine, oxygenation, physicians, Secrets of the Human Body, Stephen Meyer, Steve Laufmann, Your Amazing Body}

Your Body’s Secrets, Revealed in a New Series and a Companion Book

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025

Engineering, Medicine

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It may seem like a morbid thought, pondering the billions of ways something in your body could “go wrong,” fatally, and then “you’re dead.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, California, ChatGPT, companionship, Connecticut, delusions, editing, empathy, friends, intimacy, John West, journalists, kindness, memory, mental health, Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot, misconduct, New York City, OpenAI, suicide, technology, Wall Street Journal, writing}

In Connecticut, Horrors of AI Finally Come into View

_{David Klinghoffer
September 1, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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A 56-year-old man, living with his mother in a wealthy New York suburb, developed a “friendship” with ChatGPT. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
September 1, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Alan Turing, codebreaking, computing, David Berlinski, diversity, ID the Future, intelligence, inventiveness, Labor Day, mathematicians, origin of life, philosophers, physics, podcast, Science After Babel, scientific reductionism, The Imitation Game, Theory of Everything, World War II}

Berlinski: Life Shows a “Kind of Intelligence Evident Nowhere Else” in Nature

_{Andrew McDiarmid
September 1, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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"There is the mystery of life itself. If scientists thought that its origin and nature would yield to scientific reductionism, they have been disappointed." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›