surreal-landscape-with-a-split-road-and-signpost-arrows-show-310014089-stockpack-adobestock Type post Author William A. Dembski Date October 29, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionIntelligent Design Tagged , Aristotelianism, Charles Darwin, Claude Shannon, decisions, earth, etymology, evolution, Greek, information, intellect, intelligence, intelligent design, Latin, logos, marriage, natural selection, New Testament, possibilities, selection, Texas, United States Information, Intelligence, and Decision: Concepts Underpinning the Theory of Intelligent Design William A. Dembski October 29, 2025 Evolution, Intelligent Design 8 Darwin’s great coup was to co-opt the term "selection," previously associated with the conscious choice of purposive agents. Read More ›
PhanerochaetevelutinaPN11 Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 15, 2025 CategoriesIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , awareness, computers, decay, decisions, fungi, humans, intelligence, Japan, learning, machine cognition, machines, memory, Michelle Starr, nature rights, neuroscience, panpsychism, Science Alert, slime molds, thinking, Tohoku University, transhumanism Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi Denyse O’Leary July 15, 2025 Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 5 We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them. Read More ›
ashley-batz-betmVWGYcLY-unsplash Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date May 2, 2025 CategoriesAnatomyIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness Denyse O’Leary May 2, 2025 Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 5 Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Read More ›
black garden ants Type post Author Eric Cassell Date June 1, 2022 CategoriesIntelligent DesignMathematicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , algorithms, animals, ants, decisions, foraging, heuristic, humans, neurons, pigeons, rationality, rats, risk Animal Algorithms: Ant Foraging Is a “Rational” Behavior Eric Cassell June 1, 2022 Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind 4 Of course, ants and other animals do not make decisions in a “conscious” manner as humans would. Instead they rely on algorithms. Read More ›
memory 2 Type post Date October 18, 2019 CategoriesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __edited, behavior, brain, Darwinism, decisions, dualism, information, intelligent design, intuition, just-so stories, memory, mind, planning, Scientific Reports, self, Star Trek, stimuli, thoughts Remember This: Memory Requires Intelligent Design Science and Culture October 18, 2019 Neuroscience & Mind 10 The brain assists the organization and recall of thoughts by segmenting them and associating them with stimuli. But who is doing the thinking? Read More ›