Tag: mushrooms

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, backyard telescope, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mirrors, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›

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Author
Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce

Date
April 7, 2025

Categories
Botany
Evolution
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algae, animals, cats, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, descendants, Dogs, domestic animals, elephants, England, flies, grasses, infusoria, Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, Joseph Hooker, Lucretius, mites, mosses, mushrooms, natural history, natural selection, oaks, On the Origin of Species, pigeon-fanciers, propositions, Quarterly Review, reasoning, Roderick Murchison, Siluria, Thomas Henry Huxley, truffles, turnips, variations, Vestiges of Creation, whales, worms, zoophyte}

“Into the Jungle of Fanciful Assumption”: Excerpts from Samuel Wilberforce on Darwin

_{Rt. Revd. Samuel Wilberforce
April 7, 2025

Botany, Evolution, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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"We have objected to the views with which we have been dealing solely on scientific grounds." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 2, 2024

Categories
Botany
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, catapult, Current Biology, dandelion seeds, DNA, evolution, fungi, intelligent design, Live Science, mushrooms, Nicholas P. Money, spores, Venus flytrap}

Plant Missile Technology: A Peek in the Armory

_{David Coppedge
December 2, 2024

Botany, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Ballistic missiles are common in plants and fungi. Take a look at how they launch their payloads. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, chimpanzees, culture, David Barash, Denyse O'Leary, Disney, fiction, fungi, horror, human beings, humans, humanzee, lyrics, materialism, movies, Museum of Natural History, mushrooms, music, nihilism, Periodic Table, Pinocchio, Seattle, soul, stardust, stars, supernova, University of Washington, Victor Davis Hanson, young people}

Humans and Fungi: In Wish, Disney Goes to War on Human Exceptionalism

_{David Klinghoffer
December 14, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

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Dismantling the discontinuity of humans with nature is the goal of a cheery, innocent-sounding Disney song. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
June 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, archaea, boron, cabbage, Casey Luskin, chocolate, cobalt, coffee, coins, copper, corn, Dartmouth College, elements, Harvard School of Public Health, hemoglobin, human body, intelligent design, iron, manganese, Michael Denton, milk, mushrooms, nickel, nuts, onions, organs, oysters, peas, phosphorus, PNAS, potassium, Privileged Species, protein science, rhubarb, The Miracle of the Cell, thyroid gland, tissues, tomatoes, Uppsala University, urine, zinc}

Brother, Can You Spare a Nickel? It’s Essential for Life, and Likely an Indicator of Intelligent Design

_{David Coppedge
June 8, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Nickel is an essential element in the human body, but too much is toxic. Here’s another element our planet had to provide. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 30, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Science Reporting
Tagged
, climate change, conservation, currency, Great Salt Lake, Harvard Divinity School, inflation, Lake Erie, mushrooms, nature rights, nature worship, New York Times, personhood, rights, squirrels, United States, Utah, Western civilization}

Let’s Declare the Great Salt Lake a Person?

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 30, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Science Reporting

5}

If a squirrel or mushroom and all other earthly entities somehow possess rights, the vibrancy of rights withers. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 14, 2022

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Dogs, emotions, foraging, fungi, Google Translate, humans, hyphae, intelligence, mushrooms, neurons, neuroscience, The Scientist, University of Exeter, wolves}

Not Just Plants — Even Fungi Like Mushrooms — Talk to Each Other?

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 14, 2022

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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They are NOT judging us but they do have complex communications systems interacting with their environment. Read More ›

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Date
January 25, 2018

Categories
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, amino acids, Ann Gauger, BIO-Complexity, complex specified information, DNA, fungi, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, lignin, mushrooms, peptides, proteins}

Intelligent Design in Dog Spit and in Rotten Wood

_{Science and Culture
January 25, 2018

Intelligent Design

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The design inference pivots on the presence of complex specified information, not on the human disgust response. Read More ›