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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 9, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Boston Review, Case Western Reserve University, creationism, David Klinghoffer, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Neo-Darwinism, patients, Paul Nelson, Royal Society, science denial, Third Way of Evolution, University of Chicago, William A. Dembski, Young Earth Creationists}

Next Time I Need a Therapist, I’m Staying Away from Jeremy P. Shapiro

_{David Klinghoffer
May 9, 2018

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

7}

For remarkable blindness to his own “thinking errors,” Dr. Shapiro gets a prize. Read More ›

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Author
Jay W. Richards

Date
April 16, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Alasdair MacIntyre, americans, artificial intelligence, China, Declaration of Independence, Ghana, government, human rights, machines, natural selection, random mutations, robots, Star Trek, strong AI, Thomas Jefferson, unicorns, University of Notre Dame}

Don’t Fear the Robots; Fear the Robot Philosophers

_{Jay W. Richards
April 16, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physics

6}

Believe it or not, many officially smart people think that (1) we are just computers made of meat, (2) computers will soon become conscious, or (3) both. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 11, 2018

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmopsychism, Hungary, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Egnor, multiverse, neuroscience, Philip Goff, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, theism, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Egnor: Two Weaknesses of Agentive Cosmopsychism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 11, 2018

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

2}

There are a limited number of explanations available for how cosmic fine-tuning came to be. Actually, there are three. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 15, 2018

Categories
Ethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, "created equal", African Americans, algorithms, artificial intelligence, behavior, Civil War, consciousness, emotivism, empathy, endowed by their creator, feelings, human beings, human rights, programming, Psychology Today, Racism, rights, robots, slavery, stories, Thomas Jefferson}

Rights Are Not about “Feelings”

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 15, 2018

Ethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

Thomas Hills argues that we will accord human-style rights to robots because we will come to empathize with them. Read More ›

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Author
Richard Weikart

Date
February 24, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, “consensus science”, altruism, assumptions, bias, Chronicle of Higher Education, David Hume, Harvard University, Lord Kelvin, objectivity, postmodernism, replication crisis, science, Steven Pinker, subjectivity, thermodynamics}

Is Science Objective? Steven Pinker’s Counterattack Against the “War on Science”

_{Richard Weikart
February 24, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

5}

Unfortunately, Pinker’s overweening faith in science as a reliable path to the truth has its own problems. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
February 9, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, animals, chimpanzees, counting, frogs, goats, intelligence, Kyoto University, Natalie Angier, New York Times, numbers, Royal Society, spiders}

Sure, Animals Count; But Can They Count?

_{Sarah Chaffee
February 9, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

5}

What is the nature, and extent, of animal intelligence? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, action potentials, brain, cat, intellect, justice, materalism, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, Tabby, universals, will}

The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

5}

If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
February 1, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, brain death, Dartmouth College, dehydration, Jahi McMath, Michael Schiavo, neurology, Terri Schiavo, The New Yorker, video}

More Myths of Terri Schiavo

_{Wesley J. Smith
February 1, 2018

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

One myth is that the family somehow edited videos of Terri to make it appear falsely that she was conscious. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 1, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Adolf Hitler, crime, denial, earthquake, free will, Germany, guilt, Hannah Arendt, Jews, Joseph Stalin, murder, naturalism, punishment, Soviet Union, tornado, Ukrainians, University of Houston}

Free Will Denial and PreCrimes

_{Michael Egnor
February 1, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

If we treat criminals the way we treat natural disasters — as physical events without moral culpability — the pragmatic approach is preemption as well. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 31, 2018

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, brain, Brandeis University, geometry, incompleteness theorem, intentionality, Kurt Gödel, law of non-contradiction, logic, mind, naturalism, propositions, Pythagorean Theorem, qualia}

Naturalism and Self-Refutation

_{Michael Egnor
January 31, 2018

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism? Read More ›