Tag: Aeon

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 11, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Planetology
Tagged
, Aeon, Carl Sagan, conscious awareness, Earthrise, evidence, hidden agenda, insignificance, King Tut, Library of Congress, materialist atheism, Monash University, nature, Pale Blue Dot, Pale Blue Dot-ologists, philosophy of mind, planets, Taj Mahal, Tim Bayme}

Carl Sagan Aside, Earth Is Significant

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 11, 2025

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Planetology

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Does the view from a vast distance have any relationship to the significance of a human cultural achievement? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 1, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, Aeon, Albert Einstein, cats, classical physics, Erwin Schrödinger, Geiger counter, ions, Jim Baggott, photons, physicists, physics, quantum mechanics, Schrödinger’s cat, thought experiment, weirdness}

Here Is a New Interpretation for That Alive-and-Dead Quantum Cat

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 1, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

3}

Schrödinger’s cat has got to be the most famous cat in science. He’s really a thought experiment. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aeon, atheism, chairs, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminative materialism, folk psychology, humans, Jerry Fodor, Monash University, philosophers, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Daniel Dennett: The Final Prophet?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 22, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Dennett’s approach to human consciousness has not only borne no fruit but it is hard to see how it ever could. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 6, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aeon, animal rights, animal welfare, anthropomorphizing, dignity, elitism, intelligence, New York Times, personhood, rights, Western civilization}

“Plant Philosophy” Sounds Like a Joke — It Isn’t

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 6, 2024

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Philosophy

5}

The purpose is to destroy the philosophical basis of Western civilization. Think I’m overreacting? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aeon, fungi, human beings, intelligence, neuroscience, panpsychism, physicalism, salad, William James}

Some Biologists Take “Plant Minds” Seriously

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 23, 2024

Biology, Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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What would surely puzzle other observers is the considerable current effort — at the same time — to portray human intelligence as some sort of illusion. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aeon, babies, childhood, chimpanzees, evolution, humans, menopause, mothers}

“Evolutionary” Analysis of Childhood Is Just Speculation

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

This sort of thing is thought of as science partly out of courtesy and partly out of fear of the Darwinists. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aeon, Casey Luskin, cells, Charudatta Navare, Google, hierarchy, metaphors, Monty Python, mutual aid, nurturing, organelles, Politics, socialism, violence}

The Cell as an “Anarcho-Syndicalist Commune”

_{David Klinghoffer
April 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Dr. Navare, a science writer and an enthusiast of Feminist Science Studies, plausibly makes a scientific case against seeing the cell as a hierarchical entity. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
April 1, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aeon, amoeba, biological systems, biology textbooks, cell biology, Charudatta Navare, church, college, computers, cytoplasm, Denis Noble, developmental biologists, egg cell, embryo, eukaryotic cell, factory, feminism, genes, human technology, humanities, humans, ideology, information, intelligent design, machines, Marcello Barbieri, metaphors, mutual aid, nucleus, organelles, post-modernism}

Aeon: “The Cell Is Not a Factory” — It’s Far More Complex

_{Casey Luskin
April 1, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Viewing the cell’s nucleus as keeping a “collaborative notebook” implies record-keeping to maintain order and to act toward a purpose. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2023

Categories
Genetics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aeon, behavior, children, choices, Cyril Burt, disease, doppelgänger, eugenics, gene expression, genes, genome, homosexuality, identical twins, psychologists, selfhood, statistical methods, twins, UC Berkeley}

Genes Rule? The Evidence of Identical Twins

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2023

Genetics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researcher on identical twins hoped to prove that Genes Rule! But there were ethics slippages along the way. 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 ›