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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
February 16, 2023

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, Discovering Intelligent Design, information, intelligence, Jack Szostak, Long Story Short, machines, molecular machines, Nobel Prize, origin of information, proteins, replication, RNA, RNA world, Scientific American, specified information, Stanley Miller, transcription, translation, UC San Diego}

Long Story Short: The Origin of Replication and the Information Sequence Problem

_{Casey Luskin
February 16, 2023

Chemistry, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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As an undergraduate at UC San Diego, I attended a seminar taught by Stanley Miller, the famous chemist who put origin-of-life research on the map. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 31, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, computer, consciousness, Dante, Garden of Eden, gods, immortality, machines, materialism, myths, Science Uprising, Tower of Babel, transhumanism, Yuval Noah Harari}

John Lennox: Dante, Glaucus, and Transhumanism

_{David Klinghoffer
October 31, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Meanwhile, the will to become gods — transhumanism in a nutshell — still beckons with its ancient glamour. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 4, 2022

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Science
Technology
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, creator, Elon Musk, human beings, Jay Richards, machines, meat machines, myths, Science Uprising, Stephen Hawking, The Human Advantage, work}

Jay Richards: Myths, Metaphysics, and Artificial Intelligence

_{David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2022

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Science, Technology

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It isn’t a superior grasp of the technology involved that drives some to warn that AI will achieve superiority over human beings. Read More ›

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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
July 13, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, brain, computers, creativity, divine image, Elon Musk, emotion, heart, hormones, humans, humor, machines, mercy, neurons, Non-Computable You, programmers, qualia, religion, Robert J. Marks II, software, soul, Stephen Hawking, understanding}

The Difference Between Humans and Machines

_{Amanda Witt
July 13, 2022

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why do news headlines continually suggest that AI is practically human already, and soon will become fully human? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 6, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan Turing, algorithms, Baylor University, computation, computer science, computers, consciousness, creativity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, emotion, faith, future, humans, immortality, intelligent design, machines, mathematician, Non-Computable You, qualia, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks II, sentience, Singularity, speed, spirituality, Turing Machine, understanding, William A. Dembski}

Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

_{David Klinghoffer
July 6, 2022

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 28, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, chatbot, computer science, computers, creativity, English, Eugene Goostman, Go (game), Lord Byron, machines, Non-Computable You, programmers, Selmer Bringsjord, software, The Imitation Game, Turing test}

Can Artificial Intelligence Be Creative?

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 28, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Lady Ada Lovelace (1815–1852), daughter of the poet George Gordon, Lord Byron, was the first computer programmer. Read More ›

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Author
Granville Sewell

Date
June 27, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physics
Reproductive Science
Technology
Tagged
, airplanes, cars, computers, duplication errors, engineers, evolution, intelligent design, machines, mathematician, nuclear power plants, planets, science texts, self-replicating machines, smart phones, unintelligent forces}

More on Self-Replicating Machines

_{Granville Sewell
June 27, 2022

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physics, Reproductive Science, Technology

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We know how to build a simple Ford Model T car. Now let’s build a factory inside this car, so that it can produce Model T cars automatically. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adrenaline, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, computer science, DNA, emotions, engineers, feelings, free will, Google, human cells, imagination, LaMDA, life, love, machines, materialists, René Descartes, self-awareness, sentience, software, soul, Stanford University, toaster, Washington Post, William Hurlbut}

Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 26, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." Read More ›

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Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, brain, Carnegie Mellon University, consciousness, feedback loops, information, machines, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, Santa Fe Institute, self, self-reference, split brain}

Can Self-Organization Theory Account for Consciousness?

_{Science & Culture
June 13, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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One difficulty is that many humans produce a “self” with split brains, a brain missing key components, or half a brain. That’s not consistent with materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
April 27, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, algorithms, Big Tech, Brave New World, Davos, drugs, eugenics, gene editing, machines, nihilism, technocrats, transhumanism, universities, Yuval Harari}

Transhumanism Is Pure Eugenics

_{Wesley J. Smith
April 27, 2022

Bioethics, Evolution

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Israeli philosophy professor Yuval Harari is one of the movement’s chief proselytizers. Read More ›