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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 4, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Bradley Center, brain, calculations, computers, Discovery Institute, George Gilder, mind, Mind Matters}

George Gilder: Can a Computer Model a Brain?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 4, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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"The brain is not billions of little computers. It vastly exceeds the most powerful computers in efficiency but it is not directed to calculation as such." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, brain chemistry, chewing, consciousness, dualism, epilepsy, father, materialism, medical literature, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, morality, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Sabbath, smell, soul, walking, Wilder Penfield}

If Materialists Are Right About the Brain, Why No “Morality Seizures”?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2020

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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"There are no intellectual seizures, which is odd, given that large regions of the brain are presumed by neuroscientists to serve intellectual thought." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 9, 2020

Categories
Ecology
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, Animal Minds (series), chimpanzees, Darwinism, David Attenborough, Denyse O'Leary, Galileo Affair, Günter Bechly, lemurs, Mind Matters, nature, primates, ravens}

From Birds and Lemurs, Lessons About Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
October 9, 2020

Ecology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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Self-degradation, like the “Galileo legend,” is a vital fuel from Darwinism. Plus, "Another failed prediction" of evolutionary theory. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 7, 2020

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anger, animals, anthropologists, anxiety, Darwinism, Denyse O'Leary, disease, evolution, evolutionary biologists, grief, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, narrative gloss, pain, Philip Skell, Psyche, The Scientist}

The Evolutionary Psychologist Will See You Now

_{David Klinghoffer
October 7, 2020

Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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It needs no wisdom to stamp “ANIMAL” on the sufferer’s forehead, any more than it does to stamp “DISEASED.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 4, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, author, Bible, biological information, books, Darwinists, Eric Holloway, evolution, information, intelligent design, letters, lightning, Mind Matters, nature, punctuation}

Is Information a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 4, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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"Consider the toothpicks. If we drop them on the ground and let them scatter randomly, they will have no shape and will thus be uninformative." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 25, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, biologists, computer programs, computers, David Berlinski, DNA, engineers, Eric Holloway, evolution, Human Nature (book), M.-P. Schützenberger, mathematician, Mind Matters, natural selection, Notre Dame Cathedral, Paris, University of Pennsylvania, Wistar Institute}

The Gargoyle’s Challenge — Remembering Schützenberger on Darwinism

_{David Klinghoffer
September 25, 2020

Evolution

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David Berlinski lives in the shadow of the Notre-Dame in Paris and poignantly remembers the cathedral before it burned. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, Chicago, civilization, Communism, Darwinian evolution, democracy, Edward Feser, freedom, Friedrich Engels, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, lockdown, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Nazism, npr, paralysis, Plato, Portland, tyranny}

Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2020

Evolution

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The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Read More ›

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Date
July 1, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), artificial intelligence, C.S. Lewis, cats, China, Christians, consciousness, George Orwell, humans, john lennox, kittens, Mind Matters, Oxford University, science fiction, Yale University}

Interview: John Lennox Answers Questions about Artificial Intelligence in 2084

_{Science & Culture
July 1, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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Lennox, the beloved Oxford mathematician, asks, “What will the year 2084 hold for you — for your friends, for your family, and for our society?" Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 9, 2020

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, barbarism, conservatism, Darwinism, Immanuel Kant, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, modernity, Nominalism, Politics, realism}

The “Virus That Infected Philosophy”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 9, 2020

Arts, Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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Egnor explains, “Nominalism is the view that universals exist only as concepts in the mind, but not in reality.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2020

Categories
Geology
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Tagged
, confirmation bias, coronavirus, dying, evolution, fossil record, human origins, information, materialism, memory, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, naturalism, near-death experiences, neuroscience, pandemic, public health, Roger Scruton, soul}

Neuroscientist: Neuroscience “Is a Failure”

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2020

Geology, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life

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“How many other scientific disciplines have utterly failed to explain the salient phenomenon of the system they study?” I can think of one. Read More ›