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Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 9, 2024

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Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, chronology, consciousness, eliminative materialism, Greek, Homer, Nautilus, panpsychism, Princeton University}

Is Consciousness a Recent Development?

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 9, 2024

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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Few stopped to ask how a poet like Homer wrote the Iliad if he really was not conscious himself. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Education
Technology
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, algorithms, An Idol for Destruction (series), Aristotle, artificial general intelligence, chess, children, computers, Dante Alighieri, education, farming, happiness, humans, humility, iPhones, machines, peace, Silicon Valley, social media}

Artificial General Intelligence: Destroying the Idol

_{William A. Dembski
February 7, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Education, Technology

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Even those doing the most to build and publicize the AGI idol do not wish it on their children. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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, anger, Christof Koch, Dogs, Edward Feser, emotions, fear, goats, Heaven, horses, livestock, mind, moral choice, philosophers, soul}

Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Readers may wonder at first whether this research was worth doing, but hang on. It turns out that goats can understand basic emotions by voice alone. Read More ›

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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
Michael Egnor

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain states, death, dreams, hippocampus, knowledge, memories, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, soul, YouTube videos}

Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?

_{Michael Egnor
February 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The answer has implications both for neuroscience and for our deeper understanding of the mind-body relationship. 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
Michael Egnor

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, Allen Institute for Brain Science, awareness, Christof Koch, consciousness, Franz Brentano, ignorance, intentionality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, neuroscience, panpsychism, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Socrates, subjective experience, wisdom}

Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness

_{Michael Egnor
January 30, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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"Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional — experience.” 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 ›