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Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2022

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Arts
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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, artists, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, computers, consciousness, David Chalmers, Discovery Institute, Google, hard problem of consciousness, LaMDA, microchips}

Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Pass the Van Gogh Test?

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November 15, 2022

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Vincent Van Gogh was crazy but he was talented, and AI can be neither crazy nor talented. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 14, 2022

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Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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, Academy Award, Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, computer programmers, computer science, computers, consciousness, COSM, George Montañez, Harvey Mudd College, humans, LaMDA, Lovelace test, pop culture, Robert J. Marks II, TikTok, Washington Post, worldview, Yahoo News!}

Experts Debate: Was a Chatbot Sentient?

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November 14, 2022

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Lemoine was famously fired from Google earlier this year after he leaked a transcript of his conversation with Google’s advanced LaMDA chatbot program. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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, atheism, blindness, brain activity, cardiac arrest, consciousness, death, heart, materialism, materialists, mind, neuroscience, Salon, Twitter, University of Montreal, Wesley Smith}

Neuroscientist: Near-Death Experiences Are “Utterly Incompatible” with Materialism

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November 10, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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"NDE studies suggest that after physical death, mind and consciousness may continue in a transcendent level of reality." Read More ›

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Date
November 7, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
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, consciousness, dog, electron, Eugene Wigner, human consciousness, Nobel Prize, observations, observer, prayer, quantum mechanics, thought experiment}

As Conscious Observers, Do We Help Create Our World?

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November 7, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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That’s the big question in quantum mechanics, as science communicator Elizabeth Fernandez explains. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 4, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, birds, bread, chimpanzees, cuttlefish, Homer, humans, intelligence, Stanford University, timing}

Researchers: More Intelligent Jays Show More Self-Control

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 4, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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The researchers say that the same relationship holds true for cuttlefish, chimpanzees, and humans. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arthritis, depression, diseases, lifespan, mother, Nature (journal), neurotransmitters, seizures, sleep}

Placebos Demonstrate Power of the Human Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2022

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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When a disease affects the brain-body relationship, the placebo response can confound researchers. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer, consciousness, Dante, Garden of Eden, gods, immortality, machines, materialism, myths, Science Uprising, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Yuval Noah Harari}

John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 29, 2022

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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, cats, communication, Dogs, France, humans, information, neuroscience}

Cats Recognize and Respond to Our Voices

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 29, 2022

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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If you are a cat’s human friend, he cares when you talk to him. Whether he will, or even can, do what you want is a separate question. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 19, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Aeon, Anil Seth, brain, brain hemispheres, brainstem, consciousness, David Chalmers, materialism, neuroscience, neuroscientists, reality, University of Sussex, Yair Pinto}

Is Consciousness a “Controlled Brain Hallucination”?

_{Michael Egnor
October 19, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong. Read More ›

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Date
October 15, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algebra, ants, calculus, common ancestor, fish, frogs, geometry, humans, neurons, neuroscience, numbers, zebrafish}

How Frogs and Fish “Count”

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October 15, 2022

Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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We’re beginning to find out more about how animals that don’t really “think” much can keep track of numbers, when needed. Read More ›