Tag: David Wolpert

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Bill Macready, Bruce Chapman, coconuts, computational reductionism, David Wolpert, Didascalicon, digital wellness, Discovery Institute, education, educators, entrepreneurship, faculty, Hugh of Saint Victor, machine intelligence, materialism, Nick Bostrom, Ray Kurzweil, Reductionism, Robert J. Marks II, Seattle, Steven Buri, students, synthetic fibers, technology, Texas A&M University, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Walter Bradley, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence}

Walter Bradley and the Bradley Center

_{William A. Dembski
July 7, 2025

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Unfortunately, rather than use AI to enhance our humanity, computational reductionists increasingly use it as a club to beat our humanity. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
May 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chloroplasts, Current Biology, David Wolpert, evolution, Francis Bacon, Heidelberg University, heterochromatin, information flow, intelligent design, Isaac Newton, Jay Richards, jumping genes, junk DNA, kinesin, mechanical philosophy, Nobel Prize, open reading frame, Prime Mover, proteins, Ribosome, Robert Boyle, robotics, Rockefeller University, Salk Institute, Santa Fe Institute, University of Southern California, Vanderbilt University, William A. Dembski, William Paley}

Natural Machinery Operates Without Intervention; But How?

_{David Coppedge
May 13, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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We’re going to need a new philosophy: one that can handle realities the Elizabethans and Victorians could never have imagined. Read More ›

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Date
November 18, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, Baylor University, colony insects, computer engineering, computers, constraints, convergence, Darwinian processes, David Wolpert, Eric Cassell, evolution, ID the Future, intelligent design, No Free Lunch theorems, podcast, programmed behaviors, random changes, Robert J. Marks II, Rubik’s cube, teleophobia, William Macready}

How Convergent Animal Algorithms Challenge Darwinism

_{Science and Culture
November 18, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Eric Cassell discuss the No Free Lunch theorems of William Macready and David Wolpert, and the problem of blind searches for everything from Rubik’s cube solutions to the formula for WD-40. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 8, 2021

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, David Wolpert, DiscoveryU, Douglas Axe, evolution, evolutionary biology, evolutionists, genes, insight, intelligence, intelligent design, machine learning, natural selection, No Free Lunch, proteins, search, The Blind Watchmaker, unguided evolution, William Macready}

Axe: Why “No Free Lunch” for Darwin?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 8, 2021

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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That there is a design to life is intuitive, but most of us, if challenged on it, would want to be able to defend our intuition persuasively. Read More ›

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Date
December 10, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, __k-review, Being as Communion, blind search, Brian Miller, causation, Claude Shannon, Conservation of Information, David Snoke, David Wolpert, entropy, Eric Anderson, Evolutionary Informatics Lab, Gödel's incompleteness theorems, Great Barrier Reef, information, information theory, Interface Focus, materialism, Michael Keas, No Free Lunch theorems, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Royal Society, Santa Fe Institute, semantic information, Shannon information, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski, William Macready}

Trends in Philosophy of Science: What Does “Semantic Information” Mean?

_{Science and Culture
December 10, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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Theorists hope to alleviate a deficiency in Shannon information theory, which dealt only with the structure of a communication, not its semantics. Read More ›