Tag: computation

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 20, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, AI Overview, archaeology, art, Bas van Fraassen, biology, ChatGPT, complex specified information, computation, computer science, Conservation of Information, control, cryptography, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, Ernest Nagel, experiment, fecundity, Forensics, function, gnana yoga, Grok, Hinduism, ID 3.0 Research Program, Imre Lakatos, information, intelligent design, James Tour, James Woodward, Karl Popper, large language models, Larry Laudan, law, Lex Fridman, living things, materialism, mathematics, mechanism, methodological naturalism, Michael Levin, Nancy Cartwright, naturalism, ontology, origin of life, patterns, Paul Feyerabend, philosophy, Pierre Duhem, Plato, Platonic space, pseudoscience, Richard Dawkins, Sandra Mitchell, scientific theory, SETI, steganography, Stephen Meyer, testability, testing, thermostats, Thomas Kuhn, Tufts University, Willard Van Orman Quine}

Michael Levin and the Philosophy of Intelligent Design

_{William A. Dembski
January 20, 2026

Intelligent Design, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science

36}

Levin is not a reflexive Darwinian materialist. Moreover, he touches on many themes that intelligent design theorists touch on. Read More ›

Futuristic Data Encryption and Secure Coding Practices

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Date
October 23, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, AI, Alan Turing, codons, complexity, computation, computer science, computers, DNA, Google, John von Neumann, logic gates, programmers}

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

_{Science & Culture
October 23, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

3}

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, digestion, Discovery Institute Press, John Searle, language, Minding the Brain, ontology, philosophy, Science and Culture Today, scientism, subjectivity, The Nature of Nature, William Dembski}

John Searle (1932–2025): A Titan Passes

_{Bruce Gordon
October 3, 2025

Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

7}

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, Edward Feser, John Searle, philosophers, philosophy, popular culture, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Nagel}

Farewell to John Searle, Philosopher of Mind and Language

_{Science & 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

2}

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, computation, computer simulation, Franz Brentano, intelligent design, meaning, Michael Egnor, MIT, neuroscience, Scott Adams, simulation theory}

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

2}

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, money, personhood, Pinocchio, 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 ›