Tag: Adam Frank

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Genetics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Big Bang, Big Think, chatbot, consciousness, cosmos, Dartmouth College, developmental biology, human experience, human mind, information, knowledge, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, molecular evolution, neuroscience, universe, University of Rochester}

“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 12, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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They are right about the dead ends. But is it true that the dead ends result merely from ignoring human experience? Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
February 7, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, Adam Frank, American Journal of Physics, astronomers, black hole, cells, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, information, intelligence, intelligent design, James Barham, James Shapiro, life, Michael Levin, Mind Matters, natural, naturalism, panpsychism, self-replication, sentience, signaling, symbiosis, teleology, Tufts University, University of Chicago, unnatural, vitalism}

What Is the Essence of Life?

_{Eric Hedin
February 7, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The strength of the intelligent design explanation for life lies in its full-orbed ability to address all aspects of life. Read More ›

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Author
Rob Sheldon

Date
March 10, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astrophysics, Big Bang, CERN, Cosmic Egg, cosmic origins, creation, Energy, Ernst Mayr, evolution, galaxies, Georges Lemaître, matter, planets, stars, universe, University of Rochester}

What the Big Bang Theory Tells Us About Creation

_{Rob Sheldon
March 10, 2023

Cosmology, Evolution, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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The universe did not begin with a cosmic snow globe, or an accident at the CERN accelerator. It had to begin with Georges Lemaître’s "Cosmic Egg." Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
March 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Life Sciences
Origin of Life
Tagged
, abiogenesis, Adam Frank, Arthropoda, Biogenetic Law, biosphere, Chordata, eukaryotes, evolution, intelligent life, Jacques Monod, life, monophyly, probability, Richard Dawkins, The Design Inference, Tree of Life, universal common descent, William A. Dembski, Winston Ewert}

A Good Example of Evolutionary Use of Extremely Small Probability Singularities

_{Paul Nelson
March 6, 2023

Biology, Evolution, Life Sciences, Origin of Life

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How can you be certain, for instance, that you, horned lizards, and brook trout share a common chordate ancestor? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Think, Bruce Greyson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Closer to Truth, consciousness, David Chalmers, death, hard problem of consciousness, life after death, moral choice, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, npr, Scientific American, Standard Model}

Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Read More ›

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Date
March 11, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, Adam Frank, astrophysicists, Big Think, cosmic inflation, dark matter, Ethan Siegel, general relativity, multiverse, quantum field theory, quantum mechanics, universe}

Astrophysicists Battle over Whether the Multiverse Must Exist

_{Science and Culture
March 11, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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"If cosmic inflation and quantum field theory are both correct, then the Multiverse arises as an inevitable consequence of the two." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 5, 2018

Categories
Biology
Human Exceptionalism
Physical Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Frank, aliens, Avi Loeb, Carl Sagan, cosmos, earth, exoplanets, facts, Harvard University, humans, materialism, npr, optimism, science, University of Rochester}

“Optimism” and a Lonely Planet

_{David Klinghoffer
April 5, 2018

Biology, Human Exceptionalism, Physical Sciences, Planetology

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Adam Frank (University of Rochester) interviewed fellow astrophysicist Avi Loeb (Harvard) about the future possibility of detecting “techno-signatures” from space. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 17, 2017

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __edited, Adam Frank, cerebral cortex, clinical death, consciousness, epilepsy, Ethan Siegel, J. Scott Turner, Michael Flannery, multiverse, Prozac, Purpose and Desire: What Makes Something "Alive" and Why Modern Darwinism Has Failed to Explain It, William James}

Nature, as Defined Today, Cannot Be All There Is

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 17, 2017

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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Science is on the move. It is slowly morphing from observing nature to embodying naturalism. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 7, 2017

Categories
Fine-tuning
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Adam Frank, Barry Arrington, Darwinism, Donald Hoffman, George Ellis, Jason Rosenhouse, Joe Silk, Karl Popper, Massimo Pigliucci, Michael Keas, multiverse, Natalie Wolchover, Sabine Hossenfelder, unicorns, William of Ockham}

Question for Multiverse Theorists: To What Can Science Appeal if Not Evidence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 7, 2017

Fine-tuning, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science

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They could just as well say that whatever created horses created unicorns, too. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
August 30, 2017

Categories
Science Education
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Adam Frank, Adolf Hitler, anti-Semitism, Charles Darwin, Francis Galton, history, Jews, Nazi Germany}

Freedom and Scientific Progress – A Necessary Relationship

_{Sarah Chaffee
August 30, 2017

Science Education, Scientific Freedom

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A familiar talking point holds that a rigid attitude to science along Darwinist lines is indispensable to technological advance, while academic freedom impedes it. Read More ›