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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aboutness, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, autism, B. F. Skinner, ChatGPT, chess, Elon Musk, Erik Larson, G.K. Chesterton, Go (game), human bodies, large language models, machines, Noam Chomsky, rabbits, René Descartes, self-driving cars, Tesla, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, words}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus

_{William A. Dembski
January 30, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 28, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), Arthur C. Clarke, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, Blaise Pascal, Book of Job, Cambridge University, Darwinian evolution, Erika DeBenedictis, Garden of Eden, gravity, H.G. Wells, Isaac Newton, Isaiah, large language models, Old Testament, Reformation, Satan, science fiction, Star Trek, Star Wars, The Time Machine, Yuval Harari}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Creation Exceeding the Creator

_{William A. Dembski
January 28, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Is artificial intelligence at a tipping point, with AGI ready to appear in real time? Or is AGI more like many other themes of science fiction? Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 25, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, 2001: A Space Odyssey, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, ChatGPT, Elon Musk, Genesis, Greek, Heaven, Hebrew, humans, Isaiah, Neuralink, New Testament, Old Testament, OpenAI, Ray Kurzweil, Sam Altman, Skynet, Ten Commandments, The Matrix, The Singularity is Near, Tower of Babel}

Artificial General Intelligence: An Idol for Destruction

_{William A. Dembski
January 25, 2024

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Idols are always frauds because they substitute a lesser for a greater, demanding reverence for the lesser at the expense of the greater. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 23, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, behavior, Bill Clinton, birds, consciousness, Francis Crick, George Musser, human mind, materialism, neurons, New Scientist, organoids, proteins, Roger Penrose, Trinity College Dublin}

Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 23, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cats, control, Current Biology, Dogs, humans, people, pets, prey}

Can Science Tell if Our Cats Love Us?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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A cat is not a pack animal; he is adapted to a solitary life. Usually, he likes us but he doesn’t need us emotionally in the same way as a dog. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 19, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, central nervous system, digestive system, microbes, neurons, neuroscientists, pathogens, toxins, United States, University of British Columbia, Wired, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain”

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 19, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain. The big focus was neurons. Read More ›

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Author
Sean Mixon

Date
January 17, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, conference, consciousness, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, events, human mind, materialism, mind, rationality, science and faith}

Dallas Conference: How Consciousness Refutes Materialism and Supports Theism

_{Sean Mixon
January 17, 2024

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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I am excited to present to you at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith on February 17. I'll be talking about the "Uniqueness of the Human Mind." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 16, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Bertrand Russell, bias, C.S. Lewis, causation, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), North Korea, rigor, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William A. Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson}

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

_{David Coppedge
January 16, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, consciousness, Hedda Hassel Mørch, Ireland, James Tour, neurons, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Richard Dawkins}

Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 9, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, After Death, Alexander T. Englert, atheism, human beings, immortality, Institute for Advanced Study, John Keats, Kurt Gödel, materialists, near-death experiences, relationships, Thomas Aquinas}

Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 9, 2024

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Read More ›