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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 14, 2018

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __cedited, Alan Turing, Bible, computer science, creativity, David Gelernter, education, freedom, Great Minds with Michael Medved, mathematician, Michael Medved, mind, parents, schools, United States, Yale University}

Great Minds: Medved and Gelernter on Human Exceptionalism, American Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
June 14, 2018

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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The human mind is exceptional in the universe as the United States is exceptional on the face of the Earth. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
May 1, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, __cedited, book, cells, Eugene Koonin, evolution, genetic code, intelligent design, mind, multiverse, natural processes, null hypothesis, Ockham’s razor, p-value, Richard Dawkins, science, The Blind Watchmaker, universes}

Reality Check: Has Science Explained the Origin of Life?

_{Kirk Durston
May 1, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Imagine you wanted someone who hasn’t the faintest idea what a book is to make a book from scratch. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 23, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, Biola University, common descent, cosmic fine-tuning, Darwinian theory, DNA, fossil record, Goldilocks, intelligent design, matter, mind, mutations, natural selection, nature, podcast, proteins, science, Sean McDowell, theistic evolution, Tree of Life, universal common descent}

Design Debate in a Nutshell: Mind Over Matter? Or Matter Over Mind?

_{David Klinghoffer
March 23, 2018

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Steve Meyer was in Southern California recently and stopped by the campus of Biola University where he sat down for a podcast conversation. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 28, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, Aeon, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Big Bang, cosmic fine-tuning, electrons, evil, existence, general relativity, goodness, gravity, Immanuel Kant, Lee Smolin, mind, nature, Phillip Goff, soul, strong nuclear force, universe}

The Universe Reflects a Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 28, 2018

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Philosopher Phillip Goff is, intriguingly, on the right track but he errs in his subsequent inference to cosmopsychism. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 8, 2018

Categories
Bioethics
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, atheism, evolution, evolutionary ethics, immorality, law, mind, morality, PZ Myers}

From the Annals of Evolutionary Ethics

_{Michael Egnor
February 8, 2018

Bioethics, Physics

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Immoral behavior is obviously, in some sense, behavior that transgresses a law. What kind of law? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, abstract thought, action potentials, brain, cat, intellect, justice, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, universals, will}

The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 31, 2018

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __cedited, brain, Brandeis University, geometry, incompleteness theorem, intentionality, Kurt Gödel, law of non-contradiction, logic, mind, naturalism, propositions, Pythagorean Theorem, qualia}

Naturalism and Self-Refutation

_{Michael Egnor
January 31, 2018

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Physics

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How much does Gödel’s incompleteness theorem weigh? What is the physics of non-contradiction? How many millimeters long is Tom Clark’s argument for naturalism? Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
January 23, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, __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
Tagged
, __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
Michael Egnor

Date
January 4, 2018

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Tagged
, __cedited, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, dualism, Ed Feser, mind, nature, Nominalism, Plato, Platonism, Thomas Aquinas, universals}

Redness Reconsidered: Materialism, Universals, and Abstract Objects of Thought

_{Michael Egnor
January 4, 2018

Faith & Science, Philosophy

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The question about the material/immaterial nature of abstract thought is crucial to the debate over the plausibility of materialism. Read More ›