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Origin of Life Is Not Reducible to Physics

This continues an evaluation of a proposal that treats natural selection as a law of physics that is applicable to the entire universe. Read More ›
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Forensic Science: More Intelligent Design in Action

Kenneth Singer at Case Western Reserve trained an AI neural network on a million photos, and then on the brush strokes of four renditions of a flower. Read More ›
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Photo: An Arctic tern, by AWeith, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commons.

New Book Spotlights High Tech Animal Navigation

Meet the animal kingdom’s most stunning navigators — the Arctic tern, homing pigeons, the monarch butterfly, and the desert ant, among others. Read More ›
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Photo: No, this elephant did not sketch a self-portrait; by Deror Avi [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0 ], from Wikimedia Commons.

The Myth of “Deep Learning”

This is pathetic, and this is what is supposed to lay waste and supersede human intelligence? Read More ›
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Neuroevolution Methods Show Significant Success

The Darwinian algorithm works in theory, but does not work in practice, when applied in the domain of software production. Read More ›
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Some Possible Reasons for the Limited Success of Evolutionary Algorithms

It is theoretically possible that out of thousands of scientists working on evolutionary computation, all failed to correctly implement the Darwinian algorithm. Read More ›
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Carnival of the Animals Delights Scientists

The graceful, pulsating moon jellyfish move in “a very efficient way,” say biologists at the University of Bonn. Read More ›
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Cellular Self-Sacrifice — And an Allegory

No one knows how apoptosis came to be, although there are theories. Even the simplest of animals are programmed for it. Read More ›
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Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma 

What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme. Read More ›
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Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?

From Dr. Faizal Ali, it looks like another case of Materialism-of-the-Gaps reasoning. Read More ›

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