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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, arthritis, birds, children, emotions, horses, mammals, New York Times, pigs, privilege, reality, Salon, social justice, squirrels, The College Fix, World Economic Forum}

Check Their Privilege: Are Squirrels Socially Unjust?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 27, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researchers have long assumed that people think like animals. But now we see that the equation reads the same in reverse: animals think like people. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adrenaline, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, computer science, DNA, emotions, engineers, feelings, free will, Google, human cells, imagination, LaMDA, life, love, machines, materialists, René Descartes, self-awareness, sentience, software, soul, Stanford University, toaster, Washington Post, William Hurlbut}

Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

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June 26, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 25, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, activists, assisted suicide, Constitution, courts, Dobbs v. Jackson, Due Process Clause, euthanasia, history, hubris, law, Supreme Court}

How Euthanasia Activists Laid the Groundwork for Overturning Roe

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 25, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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Back in the ’90s, the assisted-suicide movement tried to convince the Supreme Court to impose a Roe–style decision for their cause. Read More ›

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Author
John G. West

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, brain, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, crime, criminal justice, criminals, Darwin Day in America, evolution, heredity, human rights, Italy, museums, phrenology, prisoners, skeleton, skulls, Social Darwinism, Turin}

In the Footsteps of Social Darwinist Cesare Lombroso

_{John G. West
June 24, 2022

Bioethics, Biology, Evolution

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Lombroso’s ideas were quack science. But they were taken seriously by criminologists and public officials around the world until they were debunked. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, Academy Award, assisted suicide, British Columbia, California, COVID-19, euthanasia, hospice, Italy, Jack Kevorkian, quadriplegia, San Francisco Chronicle, UC Berkeley, United States}

Euthanasia’s Cruel Compassion

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 23, 2022

Bioethics, Medicine

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Federico Carboni wanted suicide because he had no autonomy, saying in an interview, “I am like a boat adrift in the ocean.” Read More ›

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Date
June 23, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Tagged
, blind evolution, culture, Darwinian materialism, Darwinian racism, evolution, Hank Hanegraaff, humans, ID the Future, Nazi Germany, On the Origin of Species, podcast, Racism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Weikart, Science Uprising, scientific racism, The Descent of Man, United States, white nationalists}

Listen: How Darwinian Materialism Poisoned Mainstream Ethics

_{Science & Culture
June 23, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution

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Richard Dawkins felt free to encourage experimentation in ape-human hybrids, work that Dawkins hopes will undermine the idea that humans are anything special. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal rights, animal welfare, Blake Lemoine, Bronx Zoo, chatbot, courts, Google, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, LaMDA, New York State, Non-Computable You, personhood, PETA, Robert J. Marks II, Wesley J. Smith, Wired, Yuval Noah Harari}

Engineer: Failing to See His AI Program as a Person Is “Bigotry”

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 21, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Earlier this month, just in time for the release of Robert J. Marks’s book Non-Computable You, the story broke. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 21, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Bill Gates, computers, computing, consciousness, cosmos, creativity, culture, Elon Musk, evolution, free will, Homo Deus, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, materialism, Neural Networks, New York Times, Non-Computable You, Psalms, qualia, Stephen Hawking, The Economist, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence, Yuval Noah Harari}

New Book from Computer Engineer Robert J. Marks: You Are NOT Computable

_{David Klinghoffer
June 21, 2022

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Just a few days ago a Google engineer revealed that an AI chatbot disclosed to him that it had “come to life” and has a “soul.” Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, antiquity, Aristotle, atomism, Cambridge University, Darwinism, David Hume, Enlightenment, evolution, Gospels, Judeo-Christian tradition, Meister Eckhart, Mendelian genetics, Middle Ages, New Testament, On the Origin of Species, Oxford University, Phillip E. Johnson, Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, Thomas Aquinas, Victorians}

On Darwinism and the Abdication of Reason

_{Neil Thomas
June 16, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Scientific Reasoning

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It is a pity that Darwin’s homeland no longer boasts a satirist of the caliber of Thomas Love Peacock to exploit this rich seam of comic absurdity. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 16, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Science Reporting
Tagged
, activists, animal rights, animals, Bronx Zoo, children, crime, duties, elephants, Happy (elephant), human rights, humans, illness, injury, judges, New York State, Nonhuman Rights Project, people, rights, slaves, sophistry, women, writ of habeas corpus}

Court Rules Elephant Does Not Have Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 16, 2022

Bioethics, Science Reporting

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I have written here several times about the attempt by the Nonhuman Rights Project (NHRP) to “break the species barrier.” Read More ›