Tag: machine

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan McComas, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, concept cells, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, functionalism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hippocampi, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, pineal gland, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 11, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ATP, Barbara McClintock, cellular behavior, Daniel Nicholson, evolution, gene expression, genome, heterogeneity, intelligence, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, machine conception of the cell, mind, molecular biology, motor proteins, Nobel Prize, protein complexes}

Cellular Cognition? So Much for Darwinism!

_{Robert Shedinger
September 11, 2023

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Following up in considering Daniel Nicholson’s challenge to the machine concept of the cell, I will examine intracellular transport and cellular behavior. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
September 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Barbara McClintock, cells, cellular behavior, cellular cognition, Chance and Necessity, circuitry, cognition, Daniel Nicholson, DNA, electronic circuitry, function, Jacques Monod, Journal of Theoretical Biology, machine, machine conception of the cell, machine metaphor, membranes, molecular biology, nucleic acids, proteins, self-assembly, Sewall Wright}

Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?

_{Robert Shedinger
September 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
June 26, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacterial flagellum, bushings, cell membrane, Dave Farina, David Snoke, drive shaft, FleQ, Kenneth Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, machine, machinery, Michael Behe, microorganisms, mutation rate, natural selection, NtrC, outboard motor, point mutations, population size, Professor Dave, protein science, proteins, Pseudomonas fluorescens, terminology, The Scientist, YouTubers}

Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella

_{Jonathan McLatchie
June 26, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, brain, chimpanzees, consciousness, David Chalmers, emergence, evolution, hologram, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kurt Gödel, machine, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, predictions, rules, TED talk, The Atlantic}

Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 30, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Anil Seth, blind chance, brain, consciousness, evolution, life, machine, Michael Egnor, natural selection, neuroscience, Nobel Prize, Physics and Philosophy, Werner Heisenberg}

Yes, “Your Brain Is a Machine” — Wait, What?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 30, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physics

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One might add that this analysis applies to the world of life as a whole. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 12, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __k-review, action potentials, artifacts, cochlea, Darwinists, ear, intelligent design, machine, natural philosophy, nervous system, piano, Rockefeller University, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, Thomists, transducer}

Note to Thomists: The Ear Is a Reverse Piano

_{Michael Egnor
June 12, 2018

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Metaphysics

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James Hudspeth, of Rockefeller University, just won the Norwegian Academy of Science’s Kavli Prize in science. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
August 30, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, Christianity, human rights, Judaism, machine, personhood, salvation, sin, strong AI, toaster, worship}

No Machine, However Sophisticated, Will Ever Possess “Rights” or “Eternal” Significance

_{Wesley J. Smith
August 30, 2017

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

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“Strong AI” machines would have no more moral importance in and of themselves than a toaster. Read More ›