Category: Neuroscience & Mind | Page 52 | Science and Culture Today

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June 10, 2019

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Neuroscience & Mind
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Science Uprising, Episode 2: Mind Denial

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June 10, 2019

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“We are robots made out of meat, which is what I’m going to try to convince you of today.” So says evolutionist Jerry Coyne. Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

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June 5, 2019

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Robert Marks: Materialism and the AI Delusion

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June 5, 2019

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Since humans are only the “result of purposeless, as-yet-unidentified physical phenomena,” machine are not in any way blocked from becoming what we are and much, much more. Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

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June 5, 2019

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Jay Richards: The Many Dilemmas of Materialism

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June 5, 2019

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When you go off to an elite college today, you’re expected to think about the most important questions as if it were true that only material things exist. Read More ›

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June 3, 2019

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Neuroscience & Mind
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First Episode of Science Uprising Is Out: Fake Science and Toxic Materialism

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What if the way the culture directs us to think about our own biological origins is based on a vast, highly influential myth? Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

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June 1, 2019

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Arts
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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Robert Marks: Why “Edmond de Belamy” Is Bunk

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June 1, 2019

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It has to do with the difference between interpolation and extrapolation. Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

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May 31, 2019

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Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”

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May 31, 2019

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Whether your dog can philosophize is not a puzzle you need to look to the Oxford English Dictionary to resolve. Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

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May 28, 2019

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Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Scientific Reasoning
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Egnor Imagines: Professor Terminated; Replaced by Bonobo

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May 28, 2019

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“The search committee interviewed several apes, three mules, and a tomato plant.” Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

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May 24, 2019

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Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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Why Human Reason Didn’t “Evolve”

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May 24, 2019

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Egnor: “Think of the irony: a professor of philosophy, who is paid only to reason, uses reason to argue against reason. Welcome to the bowels of atheist metaphysics.” Read More ›

Photo: A leafy sea dragon, by Sylke Rohrlach from Sydney [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons.

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David Klinghoffer

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May 23, 2019

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Arts
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Robert Marks on Evolution and Creativity

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May 23, 2019

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In our culture, crossing a range of thought disciplines, one views says that AI, entrepreneurship, and evolution can dispense with creativity. The algorithm is all! Read More ›

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David Klinghoffer

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April 30, 2019

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Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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Artificial Intelligence as a “Magic Act”

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April 30, 2019

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The error is not completely different from imagining that natural selection really can do what creative intelligence — foresight! — can do. Read More ›