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Your Mind Uploaded to AI Would Not Be You

In death, the immortal mind, whose memories the computer supposedly holds, has moved on. The simulation may be a good one but it is not a surviving self. Read More ›
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AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›
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The Fantasy of Living Forever in a Computer

If eternal life is attainable, it will be found by working on one’s soul in faith, not by developing ever-more-advanced AI computers. Read More ›
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Stephen Meyer Asks: What Is Intelligent Design?

Follow the science! It demonstrates that the digitally encoded information in DNA, like all such information, could have arisen from only one source. Read More ›
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Recognizing Design by a “Purposeful Arrangement of Parts”

A correspondent asked about “specified complexity” and the intelligent design of the eye. Read More ›
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New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools

New Atheism is dead. It was conceptually dead from birth, but now it’s stopped twitching. Read More ›
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We Need the Grim Good of Animal Research

Scientists researching gene therapy as a potential future therapy have succeeded in restoring feeling to paralyzed rats. Read More ›
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ID’s Top Six — The Origin of Animals

In his book Darwin’s Doubt, Stephen Meyer considers the nature of animals and what is required to build an animal. Read More ›
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ID’s Top Six — The Origin of Information in DNA and the Origin of Life

The laws of the universe are necessary for life to exist. But they aren’t sufficient to explain how life arose. Read More ›
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“Great” Minds Think Universe Is a Computer Program

The Matrix, the first episode, was a fun movie. But as a description for reality? Please. Read More ›

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