Tag: decision-making

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
February 17, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Zoology
Tagged
, animal behavior, Apis mellifera, bees, behavior, behavioral decisions, brain, communication systems, decision-making, depth, engineering, flower print, flowers, food, foraging, honeybees, intelligent design, Lars Chittka, learning, mantids, memory, mimicry, nectar, noise, pollen, predators, primates, psychology, punishment, quinine, Radar, reward, signal-to-noise ratio, spiders, sugar, trade-offs, University of Sheffield, vegetation, World War II}

Sophistication of Bee Decision-Making Is a Mystery, Unless Design Hypothesis Is Permitted

_{Eric Cassell
February 17, 2026

Intelligent Design, Zoology

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Distinguishing a real flower from a flower print on a woman’s dress can come into play, possibly requiring some experimental probing. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 9, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain activity, decision-making, Live Science, neurons, pop psychology, processing, textbooks, visual cortex}

Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 9, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Andrew McDiarmid, bacteria, behavior, biochemistry, biological information, biology, biosignatures, cells, cognition, communication, Darwinism, decision-making, digestion, emergent properties, emotions, Eric Hedin, heart rate, human beings, ID the Future, information processing, intelligent design, interviews, life, nervous system, physical laws, physicists, rocks, single-celled organisms, stars, undirected processes, water}

Physicist Eric Hedin: Information Processing as a Hallmark of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 19, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design

3}

I begin a two-part conversation with Dr. Eric Hedin, a physicist and author who’s been asking bold questions about the hidden patterns of life. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, biology, brain, Cambridge University, cell, decision-making, food, French National Centre for Scientific Research, information, memory, navigation}

Slime Mold: Thanks for the Memories

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In recent decades, researchers have been learning about memory in slime molds which have neither a brain nor neurons. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Brian Miller, cognition, David Klinghoffer, decision-making, DNA, embryos, genes, Harvard University, ID the Future, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, life, Michael Levin, physicalism, physicists, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, podcast, purpose, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, scientific revolution, software, splicing, teleonomy, Tufts University}

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 6, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

4}

Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 30, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, atoms, biosignature, Brian Miller, cells, choices, chromosomes, cognition, David Coppedge, decision-making, DNA, enzymes, extraterrestrial life, information, information processing, living systems, natural processes, primitive, senses, unnatural}

Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

_{Eric Hedin
April 30, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

6}

The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, brains, chimpanzees, decision-making, DNA, human brains, humans, language, neurons, neuroscientists, Oxford University, personality, planning, prefrontal cortex, sound, thought}

Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 2, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, chemists, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, decision-making, Gaia, Galen Strawson, human consciousness, materialism, memory, panpsychism, philosophers, physicalism, Robert Wright, thinking}

Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
January 3, 2024

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amino acids, biological systems, cell division, cells, decision-making, gene expression, hardware, intelligent design, lipids, neo-Darwinian processes, nucleic acids, Paper Digest, protein synthesis, software}

Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology

_{Emily Reeves
January 3, 2024

Biology, Engineering, Evolution, Intelligent Design

5}

Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Being as Communion, belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, mind, neuroscience, persuasion, reality, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

_{William A. Dembski
December 27, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

5}

Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Read More ›