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Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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, artificial intelligence, brain, Carnegie Mellon University, consciousness, feedback loops, information, machines, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, Santa Fe Institute, self, self-reference, split brain}

Can Self-Organization Theory Account for Consciousness?

_{Science & Culture
June 13, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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One difficulty is that many humans produce a “self” with split brains, a brain missing key components, or half a brain. That’s not consistent with materialism. Read More ›

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Date
June 9, 2022

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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, eating, intelligent design, mice, neuroscientists, Research, traffic}

How Brains Use Data Compression to Get Things Right

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June 9, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A recent experiment with mice showed data compression at work when the mice were making decisions about how to get a reward. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
December 22, 2021

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
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, arthropods, BIO-Complexity, cars, cetaceans, common ancestry, Didier Raoult, evolution, gene regulation, gene regulatory networks, genetic information, intelligent design, lateral gene transfer, mammals, neuroscientists, primates, System Modeling in Cellular Biology, Tree of Life, Winston Ewert}

Engineering-Based Models Better Explain the Pattern of Nature than Does Common Ancestry

_{Brian Miller
December 22, 2021

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Eyes with lenses are believed to have evolved independently multiple times, but all evolutionary scenarios face insurmountable barriers. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 16, 2021

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain, Christianity, dualism, epilepsy, inference to the best explanation, logic, materialism, mind, Mystery of the Mind, natural science, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, surgery, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Wilder Penfield, William Shakespeare}

Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience

_{Michael Egnor
November 16, 2021

Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Wilder Penfield concluded that free will is not in the brain — it is an immaterial power of the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 17, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adults, anxiety, babies, emotions, infants, intellect, invertebrates, mammals, Michael Egnor, nervous system, neuroscientists, octopuses, pain, San Francisco State University}

Octopuses Get Emotional About Pain, Research Shows

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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The smartest of invertebrates, the octopus, once again prompts us to rethink what we believe to be the origin of intelligence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 14, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, blood flow, brain, brain activity, fMRI, Harvard University, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, researchers}

Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans

_{Michael Egnor
April 14, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 30, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, autism, babies, biotechnology, brain cells, Center on Human Exceptionalism, consciousness, COVID-19, elections, family, genetic engineering, human brain, human embryos, Humanize, Nature (journal), neuroscientists, schizophrenia, scientists, UC San Diego}

Stifle Your Nausea: Ready for a Dish-Grown Brain?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 30, 2020

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"We have already genetically engineered babies, the march toward three- (or more) parent human embryos, and radical proposals for creating novel family forms." Read More ›

A life-size C.S Lewis statue called The Searcher.

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Author
Phillip E. Johnson

Date
November 7, 2019

Categories
Faith & Science
Tagged
, __edited, astrology, biologists, C.S. Lewis, Charles Darwin, creationism, Darwinists, Discovery Institute Press, DNA, identical twins, intelligent design, irrational, John West, Karl Marx, magic, neuroscientists, Phillip E. Johnson, scientism, Sigmund Freud, The Abolition of Man, The Magician's Twin}

Science, Scientism, and Magic

_{Phillip E. Johnson
November 7, 2019

Faith & Science

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The scientific culture of the 19th and early 20th century produced three great wizards — Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud. Read More ›

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Author
James Le Fanu

Date
September 9, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Biology
Tagged
, __edited, Big Bang, Boeing 747, C.S. Lewis, cells, chemical elements, double helix, earth, electromagnetism, fly, Fred Hoyle, geneticists, gravity, Harvard University, humanities, John Polkinghorne, man, mouse, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, plate tectonics, Sapientia, science, scientism, solar system, speed of light, tornado, universe, William Provine, World War II}

Between Sapientia and Scientia — Michael Aeschliman’s Profound Interpretation

_{James Le Fanu
September 9, 2019

Bioethics, Biology

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Science, the dominant way of knowing of our age, now finds itself caught between a rock and (very) hard place. Read More ›