Category: Neuroscience & Mind | Page 26 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, Christof Koch, Commentary, Dan Falk, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwinians, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, human mind, John Horgan, materialists, Nautilus, Richard Dawkins, The Deniable Darwin, Uncommon Dissent, William A. Dembski}

Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?

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May 5, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
May 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amphibians, animal behavior, animals, ants, bats, brains, crustaceans, fish, fruit flies, great apes, honeybees, invertebrates, mollusks, Nature (journal), Occam's Razor, pain, philosophers, play, reptiles, scientists, Thomas Nagel, vertebrates, worms}

Being a Bat: Some Scientists Push Animal Consciousness

_{Eric Cassell
May 2, 2024

Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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A group of scientists and philosophers have published a declaration that there is evidence that a wide range of animals exhibit signs of consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 29, 2024

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, agency, complexity, consciousness, evidence, evolution, free will, human behavior, imago Dei, intelligence, intelligent design, Internet, Judeo-Christian tradition, learning, materialism, memory, mind, Ohio, randomness, science writers, scientists, sensitivity}

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

_{Daniel Witt
April 29, 2024

Biology, Chemistry, Genetics, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Read More ›

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Date
April 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, Discovery Institute, evidence, evolution, ID the Future, immaterial reality, intelligent design, interviews, materialists, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience, podcast, Walter Bradley Center}

Did Consciousness Evolve?

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April 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Read More ›

Close-up of a bacterium under a microscope, with vivid purple and pink colors highlighting cellular details.

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, archaea, bacteria, cells, cognition, consciousness, evolution, Evolution “On Purpose”, fungi, intelligent design, mind, minds, Neo-Darwinism, Peter Corning, protozoans, sentience, unguided evolution}

Was God a Bacterium?

_{Daniel Witt
April 11, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We should acknowledge that this theory is, unlike some similar attempts, at least an actual solution: if true, it would explain how complex life evolved. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, addiction, culture, Facebook, film, humanity, Instagram, Internet, journalists, literature, loneliness, modern life, money, television, TikTok, United States}

Life with Screens: A Novelist’s Prophetic Warning

_{Peter Biles
April 9, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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David Foster Wallace foresaw the rise of the Internet and its pantheon of seductions. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, atmosphere, books, dark matter, dust, electric fields, electromagnetic radiation, Energy, gravitational waves, immaterial mind, intelligent agency, intelligent design, mind, painting, physical universe, spirit, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Intelligent Design Beyond Physics — How Would a Designer Interact with the Universe?

_{Eric Hedin
April 9, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

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If our minds are “other” than the matter composing our brains, then there must be a means by which the immaterial mind can affect our brains. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, blindness, Forrest Mims, hearing, ID the Future, interview, Maverick Scientist, science}

For a Maverick Scientist, Curiosity Lead to Unexpected Adventures

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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In 1907, Forrest Mims’s great-grandfather lost his eyesight in a train track construction accident. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, cells, endoplasmic reticulum, hammer, Immune System, intelligent design, ion channels, lysosomes, macrophages, membranes, mitochondria, organelles, physiology, Quartz, Science (journal), Science Advances, tissue, touch, Yale University}

Sense of Touch Is More Finely Tuned than We Thought

_{David Coppedge
April 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Like machines that deliver goods or open doors at the push of a button, mechanosensitive channels respond on contact. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
April 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, biotechnology, books, ChatGPT4, Claudine Gay, college campuses, Gemini, gender dysphoria, gender-affirming care, Google, hallucinations, Harvard University, intelligent design, large language models, medicine, Microsoft, Stanford University, theology, truth, Wall Street Journal, websites, Wikipedia, William A. Dembski}

Truth and Trust in Large Language Models

_{William A. Dembski
April 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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How much truth is ChatGPT or Gemini giving us? How much can we trust their answers to queries? As we'll see, LLMs can lay no claim to truth. Read More ›