ravens Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date April 17, 2025 CategoriesIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & MindZoology Tagged , abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, chickadees, cockatoos, common sense, crows, evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, Giacomo Gattoni, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, logic, mammals, Maria Antonietta Tosches, Niklas Kempynck, Onur Güntürkün, ornithology, paleornithologists, problems, ravens, Ruhr University Bochum, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution Denyse O’Leary April 17, 2025 Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology 6 A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Read More ›
Staircase_of_the_BGK_Building_(26620981474) Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date April 9, 2025 CategoriesArtsBioethicsHuman ExceptionalismNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , aesthetics, AI slop, algorithms, articles, artificial intelligence, books, business, Center for Science and Culture, creative writing, culture, headlines, human exceptionalism, humans, Javanese, Krakatoa, large language models, life coach, machines, Microsoft, Microsoft Copilot, Mind Matters, nonsense, personal assistant, Peter Biles, photographs, Plato's Revenge, podcasts, Ted Gioia, writers A Needed Protest Against “AI Slop” and AI “Word Vomit” David Klinghoffer April 9, 2025 Arts, Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind 3 It’s all another lesson in human exceptionalism. I believe we will wake up from the AI delusion someday. Read More ›
Main_Reading_Room._Portrait_statue_of_Gibbon_along_the_balustrade._Library_of_Congress_Thomas_Jefferson_Building,_Washington,_D.C._LCCN2011648109.tif Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date April 4, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsHuman ExceptionalismNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Adrian Woolfson, Albert Einstein, anti-human exceptionalism, artificial general intelligence, children, Christianity, computers, Denisovans, Edward Gibbon, Foundation for Economic Education, Green Revolution, Henry Gee, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, human exceptionalism, human extinction, humans, Lawrence W. Reed, natural selection, Neanderthals, Science (journal), The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet Denyse O’Leary April 4, 2025 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind 6 As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date October 6, 2016 CategoriesBioethicsFaith & Science Tagged , __tedited, animal intelligence, anti-American propaganda, human exceptionalism, human intelligence, meat machines, patriotism, Privileged Species, The Privileged Planet, worldview A View of the World Fueled by “Nothing Special” David Klinghoffer October 6, 2016 Bioethics, Faith & Science 5 It's a depressed teenager's nihilism -- but proved by science! -- versus an exalted picture of the cosmos. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date September 1, 2016 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __tedited, human exceptionalism, human intelligence, language, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, Western civilization Tom Wolfe: Human Exceptionalist Wesley J. Smith September 1, 2016 Bioethics 3 The ubiquitous attacks on human exceptionalism are one of the current age's worst decadent tendencies. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date September 1, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy Tagged , __tedited, abstract concepts, abstract thinking, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human nature, meaning, purposefulness, qualia, signals, speech, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe Why Does Man Have Language? Michael Egnor September 1, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy 5 Both humans and other animals use signs. Signs are things that direct attention to something else. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date September 1, 2016 Tagged , __tedited, disguised religion, human exceptionalism, human language, scientific credibility, Tom Wolfe New York Times: “Darwinism Be Damned” David Klinghoffer September 1, 2016 4 Make no mistake, Tom Wolfe's book is a big, big deal in the evolution debate. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date August 31, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, abstract thought, behaviorism, communication, Daniel Everett, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human language, immaterial mind, language, language organ, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, universals, words Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution Michael Egnor August 31, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind 6 I think that Noam Chomsky is fundamentally right, and I am skeptical of Daniel Everett's claim. Read More ›
Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date August 30, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and Anthropology Tagged , __tedited, Alfred Russel Wallace, human exceptionalism, human intelligence, human language, linguists, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe In The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe Tells the Story of Evolution’s Epic Tumble David Klinghoffer August 30, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology 8 Darwinian evolution explains biological trivia but stumbles when it comes to the major innovations in the long history of life. Read More ›
Type post Author Wesley J. Smith Date August 22, 2016 CategoriesBioethics Tagged , __tedited, animal husbandry, animal rights, animal welfare, fish, human exceptionalism, moral obligation, popular media, recreation The War on Fishing Wesley J. Smith August 22, 2016 Bioethics 3 When the usual suspects advocate destroying a trillion dollar industry, it is one thing. But when an outdoors magazine sympathizes? Read More ›
