Category: Neuroscience & Mind | Page 37 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
July 10, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Chinese, Chinese Room, computers, English, intelligence, intentionality, John Searle, observer, Yale University}

Blind Ambition — Revisiting Searle’s Chinese Room

_{David Berlinski
July 10, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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For the most part, computer scientists have tended to ignore Searle’s argument and the point of view that it represents. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
July 9, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, calculus, Euclid, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Peter Biles, plagiarism}

Is Mathematics Discovered or Invented?

_{Robert J. Marks II
July 9, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some think that math is invented. Evidence, though, points towards its discovery. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 1, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, David Chalmers, David Papineau, dualism, human nature, information theory, Integrated information theory, Kenneth Miller, King’s College, laboratories, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, New York University, panpsychism, philosophers, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Tel Aviv University, The Human Instinct}

The Philosopher Wins: There’s No Consciousness Spot in the Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 1, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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After a 25-year search, dualist philosopher David Chalmers won the bet with neuroscientist Christof Koch. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
June 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheism, evolution, fiction, humans, Lawrence Krauss, literature, mathematician, Melissa Cain Travis, physical reality, physicists, Santa Fe, Santa Fe Institute, scientists, Stephen Meyer, unguided processes}

“Would Mathematics Be Here if We Weren’t?”

_{Peter Biles
June 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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In December, physicist and author Lawrence Krauss interviewed the late American novelist Cormac McCarthy, who died on June 13th at the age of 89. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 26, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, brain waves, Delusion, determinism, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Psyche, quantum mechanics, Stony Brook University, University of Missouri, volcano}

Free Will: What Are the Reasons to Believe in It?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 26, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Boy Scouts, C.S. Lewis, ChatGPT, consciousness, disinformation, Mark Studdock, Marshall McLuhan, memories, OpenAI, Paul Kingsnorth, Peter Kreeft, science fiction, That Hideous Strength, transhumanism}

At the Altar of that Hideous Strength

_{Peter Biles
June 19, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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C. S. Lewis's classic science fiction tale is about the temptation to reject being human. Read More ›

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Date
June 18, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, children, computer science, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Gregory Chaitin, ID the Future, Kurt Gödel, logic, mathematician, Mind Matters, philosophers, podcast, Robert J. Marks II}

Gregory Chaitin on Gödel, Computer Science, and the Blessing of Children

_{Science & Culture
June 18, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Robert J. Marks talks with the trailblazing mathematician about Kurt Gödel’s ontological proof for the existence of God, and more. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 17, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Paleontology
Tagged
, 23andMe, Germany, Homo sapiens, human origins, intelligence, Michael Shermer, Middle Palaeolithic, missing links, Neanderthals, ScienceAlert, University of Tübingen}

Researchers: Neanderthals Invented Process to Produce Birch Tar

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Paleontology

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The tar can be used for glue, bug repellent, and killing germs. This finding tracks growing recognition of Neanderthals as intelligent. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 14, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, China, consciousness, emotions, hard problem of consciousness, human beings, machines, personhood, robots, Russia, soul, Taylor & Francis, The Economist}

All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 14, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 12, 2023

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, analogy, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, emotions, Frank Drake, J.B.S. Haldane, language, neocortex, neuroscience, persistent scientific errors, Pulitzer Prize, reptiles, textbooks, The Atlantic, Yale University}

Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 12, 2023

Evolutionary Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan. Read More ›