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Researchers Find Memory Outside the Brain

It it is very difficult to look at the natural world seriously and not see a mind in there somewhere. Read More ›
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Photo credit: NASA, ESA and Jesús Maíz Apellániz (Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía, Spain); Acknowledgment: Davide De Martin (ESA/Hubble).

French Authors Say Science Points to God; Scientists Listen

Computer engineer Michel-Yves Bolloré, a lifelong Catholic, and Olivier Bonnassies, who came late to faith, argue that the universe must have had a creator. Read More ›
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Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi

We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them. Read More ›
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Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious

To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real. Read More ›
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A Conscious Universe?

Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail. Read More ›
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Egnor: The Central Mystery of Our Humanity Is Human Consciousness

The fate of the discipline of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts. Read More ›
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Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›
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RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System

Some researchers wonder if RNA can be understood as a common language that can be read among cells of widely different life forms. Read More ›
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Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Read More ›
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Now, Here’s a Theory of Evolution Based on Cellular “Thinking”

Note how far we are from the world of Darwin’s followers now, while still staying with the evidence. Read More ›

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