Tag: computation

Futuristic Data Encryption and Secure Coding Practices

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Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AI, Alan Turing, Antikythera, binary arithmetic, Blaise Agüera y Arcas, central processor, codons, complexity, computation, computer science, computers, DNA, Google, John von Neumann, logic gates, MIT Press Reader, programmers, Universal Machine, What Is Intelligence?}

Life as Computation: An AI Researcher’s (Unwitting) Argument for Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
October 23, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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How many computer geniuses did it take in order to produce even a tiny fragment of this complexity? And how great must be the mind that designed all this! Read More ›

The interior of ancient buildings in the Qin and Han dynasties of China

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Author
Bruce Gordon

Date
October 3, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Baylor University, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese Room argument, computation, conscious states, Daniel Vanderveken, digestion, Discovery Institute Press, epistemic objectivity, Expression and Meaning, Foundations of Illocutionary Logic, John Searle, language, Minding the Brain, ontic dualism, ontological idealism, ontology, philosophy, prose, qualitativeness, Science and Culture Today, scientism, Speech Acts, subjectivity, The Construction of Social Reality, The Nature of Nature, unity, William Dembski}

John Searle (1932–2025): A Titan Passes

_{Bruce Gordon
October 3, 2025

Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Searle’s most famous argument is undoubtedly the Chinese Room argument, first presented in his essay “Minds, Brains, and Programs” (1980). Read More ›

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Date
October 2, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, artificial intelligence, atheists, bats, Chinese Room argument, computation, consciousness, Daily Nous, Dustin Sigsbee, Edward Feser, John Searle, philosophers, philosophy, popular culture, sea cucumber, sentient consciousness, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel}

Farewell to John Searle, Philosopher of Mind and Language

_{Science and Culture
October 2, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

4}

His Chinese Room thought experiment, an argument for why computers can seem clever without having minds, was widely understood among the lay public. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
July 23, 2023

Categories
Applied Sciences
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, beauty, C.S. Lewis, computation, computers, economy, insight, John Horgan, magic, mathematician, nature, science, The Abolition of Man}

Science for Insight or Science for Power?

_{Peter Biles
July 23, 2023

Applied Sciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Technology

3}

What are the core purposes of science and math? Evaluating the idea of "knowledge as power" in the computer age. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 6, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan Turing, algorithms, Baylor University, computation, computer science, computers, consciousness, creativity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, emotion, faith, future, humans, immortality, intelligent design, machines, mathematician, Non-Computable You, qualia, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks II, sentience, Singularity, speed, spirituality, Turing Machine, understanding, William A. Dembski}

Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

_{David Klinghoffer
July 6, 2022

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 11, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, Aristotle, base reality, computation, computer simulation, Franz Brentano, intelligent design, meaning, Michael Egnor, Microsoft Word, MIT, neuroscience, Scott Adams, simulation theory, virtual reality}

MIT’s Rizwan Virk on Simulation Theory, AKA Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
April 11, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

Egnor: “If we are living in a computer simulation, we couldn’t think to ask the question.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 18, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Amazon, chess, computation, computers, Denyse O'Leary, Eric Holloway, evolution, Facebook, Google, intelligence, machines, Microsoft, Mind Matters, natural selection, robot}

Human Computation — A “Practical Application” of Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
October 18, 2018

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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As Denyse O’Leary asks, “Why is it comparatively easy to develop a program to play chess, as opposed to teaching a robot to walk freely?” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 17, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, computation, consciousness, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, neurosurgery, spirituality, thought}

Egnor: Why Machines Will Never Think

_{David Klinghoffer
July 17, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

2}

This doesn’t mean that people will not abuse the power of AI to hurt each other, and hurt themselves. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 18, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, cognition, computation, computers, Enlightenment, Henry Kissinger, human beings, machines, memorization, money, personhood, Pinocchio, puppet, The Atlantic, toaster, transhumanism}

Kissinger: A.I. Machines Won’t “Think”

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 18, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

3}

Transhumanists and other anti-human exceptionalists have been arguing of late that artificial-intelligence machines are destined to become so sophisticated that they will become “self-aware.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 28, 2017

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, computation, computer science, computer simulation, Franz Brentano, intentionality, Microsoft, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Scientific American, thought}

#5 of Our Top Stories of 2017: Of Course You Aren’t Living in a Computer Simulation. Here’s Why.

_{Michael Egnor
December 28, 2017

Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Atheist astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson takes the idea seriously. Read More ›