Tag: meat machines

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 24, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, argumentum ad omnes, argumentum ad populum, B. F. Skinner, brain reflexes, Censor of the Year, Censor of the Year Award, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Discovery Institute, Drosophila, free will, fruit flies, Jerry Coyne, libertarian free will, meat machines, morality, operant conditioning, parking lot, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, self-contradiction, social compliance, sophistry, Why Evolution Is True}

Morality Is Unintelligible Without Free Will: A Reply to Jerry Coyne

_{Michael Egnor
June 24, 2026

Bioethics, Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A moral society is something entirely different from a well-run pigeon farm or a flourishing bottle of fruit flies. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain hemispheres, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, doctors, family, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, laughter, materialism, meat machines, mind, neuroscientists, nurses, 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 ›

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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

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 ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 12, 2019

Categories
Faith & 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 ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
June 18, 2019

Categories
Arts
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __cedited, 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, William Graham}

The Masks of Prague

_{Ann Gauger
June 18, 2019

Arts, Faith & Science

4}

They have taken on the masks of their former taskmasters and let their heritage stand empty, though thankfully not yet in ruins. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 18, 2019

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, 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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 6, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & 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 ›

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Author
Brendan Dixon

Date
May 20, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, brain processes, computational reductionism, 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 ›