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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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From the “Junk DNA” Files: Can “Degraded” LINE Elements Still Be Functional?

On May 2, Casey Luskin had an online debate with Professor Daniel Stern Cardinale, an evolutionary biologist at Rutgers University. Read More ›
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As Conscious Observers, Do We Help Create Our World?

That’s the big question in quantum mechanics, as science communicator Elizabeth Fernandez explains. Read More ›
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Professor: We Shouldn’t Necessarily Value Humans Over Other Animals

NYU environmentalism prof Jeff Sebo argues that humans are not always rational and that some animals display mental qualities so we aren’t exceptional. Read More ›
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Professor Explains “How to Be a God”

Transhumanists and futurists worry about guaranteeing rights for AI technologies when they attain “consciousness.” Read More ›
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“Unique Human Origins”: Explained

One scenario involves a first human pair created from scratch — Adam and Eve, as many traditional religious believers would have it. Read More ›
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Essence and Existence in Modern Science

St. Thomas laid the intellectual groundwork for modern natural science — the absolute distinction between existence and essence. Read More ›
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Essence and Existence: The Cornerstone of Thomistic Metaphysics

I can describe anything you like in whatever detail you like, but you can’t know whether it exists or not merely by its description. Read More ›
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Why Animals Don’t Speak

If what separates us from other animals were material in nature, material alone, then perhaps we could look to a material process for an explanation. Read More ›
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Can Bees Understand the Concept of “Zero”?

The scientists credited the bees with more intelligence than some humans. Read More ›

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