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Date
March 23, 2018

Categories
Mathematics
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
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, __cedited, __image, A Brief History of Time, category error, Discovery Institute, Energy, equations, gravity, laws of nature, matter, nature, Pacific Ocean, quantum mechanics, Stephen Meyer, The Grand Design, TIME, universe}

“Spontaneous Creation”: Meyer on Stephen Hawking’s Category Error

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March 23, 2018

Mathematics, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

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He asked poignantly in A Brief History of Time, “What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?” Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 23, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
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, __cedited, algorithms, artificial intelligence, autonomy, Baylor University, cell phone, computers, Elon Musk, Google, ID the Future, intelligent design, Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics, materialism, matter, mind, Robert J. Marks II, robots, Stephen Hawking, warfare}

Terrified of a Robopocalypse? Don’t Be

_{Sarah Chaffee
January 23, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Elon Musk and Stephen Hawking are scared about AI and the prospect of a “Terminator” future. But the U.S. military isn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 22, 2018

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, __cedited, Aristotle, brain, Cartesian dualism, emergence, materialism, matter, mind, neurons, neurotransmitters, ontology, res cogitans, res extensa, soul, Thomism, water}

“Emergence” and the Soul

_{Michael Egnor
January 22, 2018

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
November 29, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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, __cedited, abiogenesis, Ann Gauger, astrobiology, chicken-and-egg problem, Columbia University, computer code, DNA, evolution, intelligent design, matter, metaphor, molecular machines, NASA, npr, universe}

“The Ultimate Bootstrap”

_{Sarah Chaffee
November 29, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 24, 2017

Categories
Botany
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __cedited, abstract thought, animals, Benjamin Libet, brain, craniopagus twins, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, documentary, Krista Hogan, matter, mind, neuroscience, physiology, Roger Sperry, soul, spirit, Tatiana Hogan, Thomistic dualism, Wilder Penfield}

What the Craniopagus Twins Teach Us About the Mind and the Brain

_{Michael Egnor
November 24, 2017

Botany, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Tatiana and Krista Hogan's shared and individual powers of mind are just what Thomistic dualism predicts. Read More ›

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Date
November 18, 2017

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
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, __cedited, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, ID the Future, information, life, materialism, matter, physical existence, podcast, reality, Research, Sarah Chaffee, universe}

Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe

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November 18, 2017

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 30, 2017

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, Aristotle, Ed Feser, existence, intelligibility, matter, potency, substance}

What Is Form?

_{Michael Egnor
July 30, 2017

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Materialism is an impoverished perspective on nature, and it creates, rather than solves, problems in metaphysics and science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 21, 2017

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, __edited, Adam Frank, Aristotle, change, convergent evolution, David Klinghoffer, electron, form, intelligibility, materialism, matter, mind-body problem, quantum mechanics, science, Werner Heisenberg}

What Is Matter? The Aristotelian Perspective

_{Michael Egnor
July 21, 2017

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Science

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Writing here yesterday, I pointed out the problems with materialist metaphysics. Read More ›