Category: Life Sciences | Page 42 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›

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Date
March 7, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Australian National University, cleverness, females, fish, intelligence, males, octopuses, Research, sexual selection}

Did Sexual Selection Make Male Mosquitofish Really Smart?

_{Science & Culture
March 7, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s worth considering that the fish who can solve mazes may also be better able to stay out of the way of predators than the ones who couldn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brains, color, consciousness, Darwinism, determinism, evolution, Free Agents, free will, hard problem of consciousness, intelligent design, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, materialists, Michael Levin, naturalism, neurons, pain, Platonism, purpose, randomness, René Descartes, will}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

_{Daniel Witt
March 5, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animals, Aristotle, behavior, Dogs, emotions, evolutionary biologists, feelings, humans, Marc Bekoff, Michael Egnor, moral choice, prejudice, Psychology Today, Racism, sensations, sexism, speciesism, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Wesley J. Smith}

Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 4, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology, Scientific Reasoning

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Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, Benjamin Libet, brain, compatibilism, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, Determined (book), evolution, Free Agents, free will, Kevin Mitchell, materialists, muscles, neurobiology, neuroscientists, randomness, Robert Sapolsky, Trinity College Dublin}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?

_{Daniel Witt
March 4, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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If you pick up a book up about free will by a materialist, you are generally safe to assume that the point will be to explain that free will is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 1, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
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, Casey Luskin, Center for Science and Culture, Dan Stern Cardinale, geologists, interviews, Islam, junk DNA, life, Muslims, Rutgers University, stereotypes, Subboor Ahmad, YouTube channels, YouTube videos}

Casey Luskin: Intelligent Design, Islamic Edition

_{David Klinghoffer
March 1, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Much of the focus is on the “junk DNA” argument against ID, but stay tuned for the amusing case of Dr. Dan Stern Cardinale and the feathered crocodile. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
February 27, 2025

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Albuquerque, Cambrian Explosion, Center for Science and Culture, DNA, Energy, enzymes, evolution, fossil record, genes, information, initial conditions, intelligent design, junk DNA, life, matter, mutations, natural selection, non-coding DNA, overlapping codes, physical constants, proteins, space-time, spliceosome, universe, University of New Mexico, video}

Michael Kent: “12 Discoveries That Have Changed the Debate about Design”

_{Granville Sewell
February 27, 2025

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Michael Kent is a Fellow with the Center for Science and Culture and a recently retired bio-scientist from Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 26, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, BioCosmos, carbohydrates, cell adhesion, complexity, dGRNs, endoplasmic reticulum, evolution, glycans, glycosylation, glycosyltransferases, Golgi apparatus, intelligent causes, intelligent design, kidney cells, nerve cells, probabilistic resources, proteins, signaling, stochastic processes, University of Georgia}

New Paper Examines How the Complexity of Glycan Structures Points to Intelligent Design

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 26, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"This is, of course, important in order for a kidney cell to be and function as a kidney cell, a nerve cell to function as a nerve cell, and so forth." Read More ›

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Date
February 25, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, American Council for Science and Health, artificial intelligence, Belgium, bias, chatbot, climate change, Gary Smith, hallucination, medicine, neuroscience, privacy, psychiatry, safety, Stanford University, suicide}

Replace Psychiatrists with AI?

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February 25, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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"A Belgian man, after weeks of dialogues with his chatbot 'confidante,' committed suicide after it encouraged him to sacrifice himself for climate change." Read More ›