Tag: machines | Page 7 | Science and Culture Today

^{Type
post

Author
Jonathan Wells

Date
February 15, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Ann Gauger, ATP synthase, Berra's Blunder, biosynthesis, Bruce Alberts, Corvette, Daniel Nicholson, Darwinism, evolution, Immanuel Kant, intelligent design, kinesin, machine metaphor, machines, Massimo Pigliucci, organisms, Phillip E. Johnson, philosophy of biology, protein machines, proteins, René Descartes, Ribosome, RNA, software, Tim Berra, U.S. National Academy of Sciences}

Why the Design in Living Things Goes Far Beyond Machinery

_{Jonathan Wells
February 15, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design

8}

French philosopher René Descartes conceived of living things as complex machines, a concept now known as the “machine metaphor.” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 29, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Alan Turing, artificial intelligence, computers, creativity, Great Minds with Michael Medved, imitation, innovation, machines, Michael Medved, podcast, Robert J. Marks II, Turing Machine, Walter Bradley Center}

Great Minds: Robert Marks, Michael Medved on the Limits of Computation

_{David Klinghoffer
November 29, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

2}

There’s no danger of computers ruling us, but there is a peril in employing them to greatly magnify the impact of our own errors. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 18, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Amazon, chess, computation, computers, Denyse O'Leary, Eric Holloway, evolution, Facebook, Google, intelligence, machines, Microsoft, Mind Matters, natural selection, robot}

Human Computation — A “Practical Application” of Intelligent Design

_{David Klinghoffer
October 18, 2018

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

As Denyse O’Leary asks, “Why is it comparatively easy to develop a program to play chess, as opposed to teaching a robot to walk freely?” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 15, 2018

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, artificial intelligence, beauty, biological information, Children of Light, computers, creativity, Darwinian theory, Discovery Institute, elegance, George Gilder, information, information theory, intelligent design, Life After Google, machines, Michael Denton, surprise}

Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise

_{David Klinghoffer
October 15, 2018

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

3}

Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 15, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, algorithms, Amazon, artificial intelligence, bestseller, capitalism, computers, creativity, Darwinism, Fox News, George Gilder, humans, Life After Google, machines, natural selection, nature, planning, socialism, surprise, tyranny, youtube}

Gilder on Surprise, Creativity, and Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
October 15, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

2}

It’s strikes me that this is a difference between design and Darwinian thinking. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 29, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, books, brain, brain function, Discovery Institute, eyes, hands, human beings, insults, Jeffrey Shallit, learning, legs, lungs, machines, materialism, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Neural Networks, organs, Walter Bradley Center}

Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?

_{David Klinghoffer
September 29, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind

2}

Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2018

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, altruism, animals, artificial intelligence, bonobos, Carl Zimmer, evolution, humans, intellect, just-so stories, machines, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, tools, will}

Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2018

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other. Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 4, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __k-review, Claude Shannon, creativity, Discovery Institute, economics, George Gilder, Google, information theory, Karl Marx, knowledge, machines, money, Silicon Valley, Wall Street Journal, William Blake}

Life After Google — Gilder’s Vision

_{David Klinghoffer
September 4, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

5}

It’s the quality of vision that’s most painfully lacking in our intellectual and moral leaders, not merely diverse or polymathic knowledge Read More ›

^{Type
post

Date
September 1, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Technology
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, artificial intelligence, consciousness, ID the Future, machines, robots, Walter Bradley Center, William A. Dembski}

Bill Dembski on the AI Boogeyman, and the Real AI Danger

_{Science & Culture
September 1, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Technology

1}

“The real worry,” Dembski says, “isn’t that we’ll raise machines to our level, but that we’ll lower humanity to the level of machines.” Read More ›

^{Type
post

Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 23, 2018

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, artificial intelligence, astrophysics, Big Bang, Brian Greene, determinism, free will, John Bell, machines, materialism, nature, particles, quantum mechanics, quantum theory, Singularity, UC Berkeley, Werner Heisenberg}

Is Free Will an Illusion?

_{Michael Egnor
July 23, 2018

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

5}

if we are wholly matter, and matter is wholly governed by physical law, there is no room for free will. Read More ›