Tag: computer

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Date
April 20, 2025

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, animals, artificial intelligence, bacon, Benjamin Libet, brain, C. elegans, ChatGPT, computer, Denyse O'Leary, determinism, Dogs, free will, free won't, human exceptionalism, Humanize, large language models, machines, Michael Egnor, mind, Minding the Brain, neural mechanisms, neuroscience, podcast, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, Wesley J. Smith}

Are “Mind” and “Brain” the Same Thing?

_{Evolution News
April 20, 2025

Human Exceptionalism, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor passionately argues that denying free will undermines moral responsibility and paves the way for totalitarian ideologies. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain damage, chess, computer, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, knowledge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, M. R. Bennett, memories, memory, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, P. M. S. Hacker, philosophers, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, storage}

Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain; Here’s Why

_{Michael Egnor
February 29, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the “storage” of non-physical entities. Philosophers like to call that a "category error." Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, artificial intelligence, babies, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, medicine, persons, Peter Singer, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, unborn baby, unconsciousness}

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 8, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

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Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 4, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Big Bang, cognitive science, computer, computers, consciousness, Darwinian evolution, David Chalmers, Donald Hoffman, electronics, evolution, evolutionary biologists, Evolutionary Game Theory, mind-body problem, natural selection, physicalists, pixels, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, University of California, voltage}

Brain Scientist: Consciousness Didn’t Evolve; It Creates Evolution

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 4, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Donald Hoffman says that even the Big Bang must be understood in a universe where consciousness is fundamental. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer, consciousness, Dante, Divine Comedy, Garden of Eden, gods, immortality, machines, materialism, myths, Science Uprising, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Yuval Noah Harari}

John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 4, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Agouti, agriculture, algorithms, ant colony, antennae, anternet, ants, brains, cities, computer, computer programmers, Deborah M. Gordon, E.O. Wilson, eggs, evolutionary biologists, foraging, humans, intelligent design, larvae, mammals, neurons, neuroscience, pheromones, slavery, Stanford University, superorganism}

Yes, Ants Think — Like Computers

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 4, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Computer programmers have adapted some ant problem-solving methods to software programs (but without the need for complex chemical scents). Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
August 12, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __edited, chromosomes, codon, computer, digital code, diploidal genome, DNA, gene, intelligent design, mammals, mitochondrial DNA, nucleotides}

The Genius of Alternative Reading Frames

_{Ann Gauger
August 12, 2019

Intelligent Design

5}

This is amazing! Here we have multiple meanings being read from one stretch of digital code. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 17, 2019

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, atheism, atom, author, Bill Gates, Caltech, common sense, computer, Craig Venter, digital code, Douglas Axe, evolutionary theory, genetic information, humans, intelligent design, life, materialism, Microsoft, Milky Way, mutation/selection mechanism, programmer, programming, Richard Dawkins, software, Stephen Meyer}

New Science Uprising Episode: “Programming Without a Programmer”?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 17, 2019

Intelligent Design

3}

To evolve a protein, Douglas Axe draws a comparison to seeking out — blindfolded! — a particular atom secreted away somewhere in the Milky Way. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 1, 2019

Categories
Arts
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, artificial intelligence, Charles Darwin, CNN, computer, creativity, extrapolation, Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, machines, Mind Matters, MIT, Neural Networks, neuroscience, Robert J. Marks II, rules}

Robert Marks: Why “Edmond de Belamy” Is Bunk

_{David Klinghoffer
June 1, 2019

Arts, Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 19, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, __k-review, 3D printing, abiogenesis, computer, evolution, Granville Sewell, reward, self-replication}

Announcing New Sewell Prize in Biological Origins Studies!

_{David Klinghoffer
April 19, 2019

Evolution

2}

It sets a fascinating challenge but offers an enviable reward. Read More ›