Category: Neuroscience & Mind | Page 36 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, evolution, fiction, humans, Lawrence Krauss, literature, mathematician, Melissa Cain Travis, physical reality, physicists, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Institute, scientists, Stephen Meyer, unguided processes}

“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”

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June 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 26, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, brain waves, Delusion, determinism, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Psyche, quantum mechanics, Stony Brook University, University of Missouri, volcano}

Free Will: What Are the Reasons to Believe in It?

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June 26, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Boy Scouts, C.S. Lewis, ChatGPT, consciousness, disinformation, Mark Studdock, Marshall McLuhan, memories, OpenAI, Paul Kingsnorth, Peter Kreeft, science fiction, That Hideous Strength, transhumanism}

At the Altar of that Hideous Strength

_{Peter Biles
June 19, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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C. S. Lewis's classic science fiction tale is about the temptation to reject being human. Read More ›

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Date
June 18, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, children, computer science, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Gregory Chaitin, ID the Future, Kurt Gödel, logic, mathematician, Mind Matters, philosophers, podcast, Robert J. Marks II}

Gregory Chaitin on Gödel, Computer Science, and the Blessing of Children

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June 18, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Robert J. Marks talks with the trailblazing mathematician about Kurt Gödel’s ontological proof for the existence of God, and more. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 17, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Tagged
, 23andMe, Germany, Homo sapiens, human origins, intelligence, Michael Shermer, Middle Palaeolithic, missing links, Neanderthals, ScienceAlert, University of Tübingen}

Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology

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The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 14, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, China, consciousness, emotions, hard problem of consciousness, human beings, machines, personhood, robots, Russia, soul, Taylor & Francis, The Economist}

All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 14, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 12, 2023

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, analogy, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, emotions, Frank Drake, J.B.S. Haldane, language, neocortex, neuroscience, persistent scientific errors, Pulitzer Prize, reptiles, textbooks, The Atlantic, Yale University}

Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 12, 2023

Evolutionary Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 11, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cells, central dogma, consciousness, DNA, Francis Crick, James Shapiro, materialism, neurons, Nobel Prize, nucleic acids, Oxford University, panpsychism, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, RNA, Scientific American, The Scientist, UCLA, University of Bonn, University of British Columbia, University of Chicago}

Cognitive Cells? A Newer Challenge to Neo-Darwinism

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 11, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The origin of self-referential cognition is unknown, say a trio of researchers who call it “biology’s most profound enigma.” Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
May 31, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, billionaires, culture, family, friendship, grief, immortality, media, Norway, privilege, television, transhumanism, wealth}

HBO Toys with Transhumanism

_{Peter Biles
May 31, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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As a plot element, a popular show about a family-owned media empire hints at the desire to live forever. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 30, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, abduction, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, CIA, computers, digits, Erik Larson, Fibonacci sequence, Harvard University Press, numbers, patterns, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, Wolfgang Pauli}

Breaking ChatGPT: Its Inability to Find Patterns in Numerical Sequences

_{William A. Dembski
May 30, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Pattern completion tasks like this have been part of aptitude testing for a long time. The NSA and CIA, for instance, have used them to help in hiring analysts. Read More ›