baby Type post Author Michael Egnor Date June 4, 2025 CategoriesAnatomyFaith & ScienceIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Attention Schema Theory, brain, brain hemispheres, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, doctors, family, Global Workspace Theory, Higher Order Theory, Integrated information theory, laughter, materialism, meat machines, mind, neuroscientists, nurses, Predictive Processing Theory, René Descartes, soul, subjective experience, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield The Boy Who Proved Most Theories of Consciousness Wrong Michael Egnor June 4, 2025 Anatomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 5 He was unequivocally conscious — without a cerebral cortex and even without brain hemispheres. Read More ›
Science Uprising Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date October 4, 2022 CategoriesMetaphysicsNeuroscience & MindPhilosophyScienceTechnology 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 3 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 ›
shipwreck-2 Type post Author Michael Egnor Date December 12, 2019 CategoriesFaith & Science Tagged , __edited, atheism, autopsy, bacteria, Christopher Hitchens, computer program, creation myth, Edward Feser, evolutionary theory, First Amendment, Five Ways, Gaia, genetic information, Lawrence Krauss, Ludwig Wittgenstein, meat machines, New Atheists, Nobel Prize, paganism, plagiarism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Thomas Aquinas New Atheism: A Shipwreck of Fools Michael Egnor December 12, 2019 Faith & Science 5 New Atheism is dead. It was conceptually dead from birth, but now it’s stopped twitching. Read More ›
Jan Hus 2 Type post Author Ann Gauger Date June 18, 2019 CategoriesArtsFaith & Science Tagged , __k-review, atheism, Austria, brain, Charles Darwin, churches, Communism, Czech Republic, Europe, genes, Google, history, Internet, masks, materialism, meat machines, movies, music, poetry, Poland, Prague, Science Uprising, synagogues, TV, William Graham The Masks of Prague Ann Gauger June 18, 2019 Arts, Faith & Science 5 They have taken on the masks of their former taskmasters and let their heritage stand empty, though thankfully not yet in ruins. Read More ›
Jay Richards 2 Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date April 18, 2019 CategoriesEvolutionNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, Bradley Center, computers, Dallas, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, future, George Gilder, Jay Richards, machines, meat machines, Robert J. Marks II, robots Richards: False Prophecies of a Robotic Future Are Based on a False Darwinian Premise David Klinghoffer April 18, 2019 Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind 2 The rejoinder to this way of thinking, which Jay Richards expresses with wonderful concision, is that humans possess a unique capacity forever setting us apart from machines. 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 Brendan Dixon Date May 20, 2016 CategoriesComputational SciencesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __tedited, brain processes, computational reductionism, Darwinian algorithm, human intelligence, human mind, hype, machine metaphor, meat machines, mimicry, Overruling Intelligence No, Your Brain Isn’t a Three-Pound Meat Computer Brendan Dixon May 20, 2016 Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind 5 AI machines are more a form of mimicry than anything even approaching intelligence. Read More ›
