Category: Life Sciences | Page 116 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Anna Zeligowski, Aristotle, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Eva Jablonka, evolution, evolutionary biology, fairy tales, humans, just-so stories, nonhumans, Simona Ginsberg, soul, Stephen Jay Gould, storytelling}

Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?

_{Michael Egnor
June 29, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 29, 2022

Categories
Biology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, agnostics, atheism, churches, culture, Eric Metaxas, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, New Atheists, Professor Dave, Return of the God Hypothesis, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, scientific evidence, secularism, social media, Socrates in the City, Stephen Meyer, theism, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, YouTubers}

Meyer, Metaxas: A Shifting Landscape for Science and Religion

_{David Klinghoffer
June 29, 2022

Biology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Sneering YouTube and social media atheists are influencing young people more than the New Atheists of yore. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, actuators, dandelion seeds, dandelions, Darwinians, humidity, hummingbirds, Illustra Media, Imperial College London, intelligent design, Japan, Madagascar, moths, Nature Communications, On the Origin of Species, orb webs, pappus, Paul Nelson, PLOS ONE, seals, silk glands, spider silk, spiders, thermostats, University of Bristol, whiskers, Wikipedia, Yale University}

Dandelions, Darwin’s Bark Spider, and More: No Shortage of Biological Wonders

_{David Coppedge
June 28, 2022

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Those of us who find purpose in biology instead of random tinkering will not run out of material to get excited about any time soon. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, chatbot, computer science, computers, creativity, English, Eugene Goostman, Go (game), Lord Byron, machines, Non-Computable You, programmers, Selmer Bringsjord, software, swarms, The Imitation Game, Turing test, Ukrainians}

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 28, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Lady Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, arthritis, birds, children, emotional contagion, emotions, folklore, hermit crabs, horses, inequality, 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
Granville Sewell

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Reproductive Science
Technology
Tagged
, airplanes, cars, computers, duplication errors, engineers, evolution, Ford Model T, intelligent design, machines, mathematician, nuclear power plants, planets, science texts, self-replicating machines, self-replicator, smart phones, unintelligent forces}

More on Self-Replicating Machines

_{Granville Sewell
June 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Reproductive Science, Technology

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We know how to build a simple Ford Model T car. Now let’s build a factory inside this car, so that it can produce Model T cars automatically. 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, Isaac Asimov, LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, 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”

_{Wesley J. Smith
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
John G. West

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Evolution
Tagged
, brain, Cesare Lombroso, Charles Darwin, crime, criminal justice, criminals, criminologists, criminology, 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
William A. Dembski

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Darwinian gradualism, Darwinism, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary pathways, evolvability, fitness, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), hypercube, intelligent design, Jason Rosenhouse, Michael Behe, poker, Powerball, probability, protein space, Stephen Meyer, The Failures of Mathematical Anti-Evolutionism, waiting-time problem}

Rosenhouse and Discrete Hypercube Evolution

_{William A. Dembski
June 24, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Why have I just gone through this exercise with the 100-dimensional discrete hypercube, giving it the full track 2 monty? Two reasons. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, consciousness, creativity, emergence, experience, human brain, immortality, mimicry, Non-Computable You, qualia, robots, sentience, Steven Spielberg, strong AI, understanding}

No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 24, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›