Category: Neuroscience & Mind | Page 28 | Science and Culture Today

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 24, 2023

Categories
Linguistics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, creativity, Iain McGilchrist, lobes, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, personality, preferences, The Matter with Things, vertebrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

Right Brain Vs. Left Brain? It’s Murky

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August 24, 2023

Linguistics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Vertebrates generally have brains divided into two lobes, an arrangement that may go back half a billion years. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, A Brief History of Time, Alfred Lord Tennyson, cars, Charles Sanders Peirce, consciousness, immaterial reality, John Dewey, John Horgan, Marc Tessier-Lavigne, Matt Ridley, Nautilus, Philip Ball, science writers, Stanford University, The End of Science}

For a Change, Science Writers Think Critically About Science

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August 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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They can be quite interesting when they allow themselves to play around with ideas a bit. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 18, 2023

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Education
Tagged
, algebra, algorithms, ancient Greeks, Arabs, California, Colin Wright, education, Jerry Coyne, literacy, pi, pizza, private truth, Pythagorean Theorem, Richard Dawkins, social justice, University of Nevada, whiteness, zero}

What Deep Social Change Underlies the War on Math?

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August 18, 2023

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Education

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The universal language of science is sinking under the weight of claims about trauma and privilege. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 16, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, C.S. Lewis, chatbot, ChatGPT, CNET, consciousness, Edgar Allan Poe, human uniqueness, literature, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Stephen King, stories, Walter Bradley Center, Wheaton College}

Human Exceptionalism — Why Artificial Intelligence Will Never Tell a Story

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August 16, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The personal, communicative nature of storytelling rules out AI as a legitimate author. It can’t intend meaning. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
August 15, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, electrons, fluid flow, Kepler’s Third Law of Planetary Motion, mathematician, quantum mechanics, René Descartes, square root, zero}

Intelligent Design in Imaginary Numbers

_{Eric Hedin
August 15, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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René Descartes, in 1637, is credited with being the first to assign this label to results involving the square root of a negative number. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2023

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adam Marcus, COVID-19, Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School, honesty, Ivan Oransky, John Ioannidis, Matt Ridley, neuroscientists, Retraction Watch, scandal, science, Stanford University, The Guardian, Theo Baker, Times Higher Education}

Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check

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August 13, 2023

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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In the wake of the Stanford scandal, the reasons why science often ISN’T self-correcting are attracting much more attention. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 10, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, biological information, genes, illusion, information, intelligence, Marcello Barbieri, meaning, molecular biology, physicalism, University of Ferrara}

Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?

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August 10, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.” Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
August 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, body, girls, joy, men, movies, Oppenheimer, Public Discourse, transhumanism, women}

Barbie’s Subtle Critique of Transhumanism?

_{Peter Biles
August 8, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The transhumanists want to escape the body into a dreamlike utopia. It will be fully artificial and completely boring. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 6, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain hemispheres, consciousness, eliminative materialism, Iain McGilchrist, Justin Brierley, neuroscience, panpsychism, psychiatry, qualia, Scientific American, The Matter with Things, Unbelievable}

Understanding the Mind: A Neuroscientist and a Psychiatrist Walk into a…

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August 6, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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What’s most interesting about this discussion is how well the life of the intellect, engaged by science, gets on without guidance from eliminative materialism. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 4, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blindness, Charles Darwin, consciousness, evolution, intelligence, intelligent design, Leonhard Euler, materialists, mind, Nancy Pearcey, rationality, Richard Dawkins, San Francisco State University, Theodosius Dobzhansky, William Provine, zombies}

Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness

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August 4, 2023

Evolution, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival? Read More ›