Tag: David Chalmers | Page 2 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 1, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, consciousness spot, David Chalmers, David Papineau, dualism, human nature, information theory, Integrated information theory, Kenneth Miller, King’s College, laboratories, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, New York University, panpsychism, philosophers, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Tel Aviv University, The Human Instinct}

The Philosopher Wins: There’s No Consciousness Spot in the Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 1, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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After a 25-year search, dualist philosopher David Chalmers won the bet with neuroscientist Christof Koch. Read More ›

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Author
David Berlinski

Date
June 5, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, atheism, biologists, Blaise Pascal, calculus, David Chalmers, Eucharist, materialism, naturalism, numbers, particles, physicalism, physicists, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, quantum field theory, René Thom, Science After Babel, scientific revolution, scientism, theologians, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Vishnu}

Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism

_{David Berlinski
June 5, 2023

Evolution, Physical Sciences

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Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Think, Bruce Greyson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Closer to Truth, consciousness, David Chalmers, death, hard problem of consciousness, life after death, moral choice, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, npr, Scientific American, Standard Model}

Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death 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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 3, 2022

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Christof Koch, David Chalmers, Eugene Wigner, Giulio Tonioni, Hard Problem, humans, Integrated information theory, John von Neumann, panpsychism, quantum effects, Sabine Hossenfelder, universe}

Sabine Hossenfelder, Taking on Consciousness, Tackles Panpsychism

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 3, 2022

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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She wants to apologize to all carrots who are watching her video — but carrots are not watching and that’s the point. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2022

Categories
Arts
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, artists, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, computers, consciousness, COSM 2022, David Chalmers, Discovery Institute, feedback, Google, hard problem of consciousness, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, LaMDA, microchips}

Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Pass the Van Gogh Test?

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2022

Arts, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Vincent Van Gogh was crazy but he was talented, and AI can be neither crazy nor talented. 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 ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2021

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Anna Zeligowski, brains, Cambrian Explosion, consciousness, David Chalmers, Eva Jablonka, Germany, protocells, Simona Ginsberg}

Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 1, 2021

Anatomy, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 8, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __edited, C.S. Lewis, civilization, complex life, consciousness, Darwin Devolves, Darwinists, David Berlinski, David Chalmers, David Gelernter, evolution, Greek, Human Nature (book), intelligent design, Islam, Italy, Jerry Coyne, Long Term Evolution Experiment, LTEE, materialism, Michael Behe, Paris, Peter Robinson, Rational Religion, Ray Kurzweil, Richard Lenski, saltation, Singularity, Stephen Meyer, subjunctive, The Greatest Show on Earth, theistic evolution, Umar Nasser, Uncommon Knowledge}

Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims

_{David Klinghoffer
October 8, 2019

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, brain, chimpanzees, consciousness, David Chalmers, emergence, evolution, hologram, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kurt Gödel, machine, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, predictions, rules, TED talk, The Atlantic}

Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms. Read More ›