Tag: qualia

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
March 18, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Science Education
Tagged
, application, birds, bobcats, butterflies, capsids, deer, evolution, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, intelligent design, mice, molecules, nature, philosophers, qualia, Quanta, science, scientists, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers}

Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

_{Emily Sandico
March 18, 2025

Intelligent Design, Science Education

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The setting, once again in Colorado, is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines against the bluest of skies. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
February 21, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American Humanist Association, C.S. Lewis, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, debates, Denis Noble, Denyse O'Leary, Francis Collins, Francis Crick, intelligent design, James Shapiro, Mendelian genetics, Michael Egnor, Miracles (book), MIT, Old Testament, qualia, Richard Dawkins, Roger Penrose, Rudder Theatre, Santa Fe, Simon Conway Morris, Stephen Jay Gould, Steven Pinker, Steven Weinberg, Stuart Kauffman, Texas A&M University, The Better Angels of Our Nature, The Blind Watchmaker, Trotter Prize, Tufts University, violence, Zeitgeist}

Dawkins and Picard Win This Year’s Trotter Prize

_{William A. Dembski
February 21, 2025

Bioethics, Faith & Science

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A reflection on the 2025 Trotter Prize Lecture delivered by Oxford's Richard Dawkins and MIT's Rosalind Picard. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 30, 2024

Categories
Chemistry
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, feelings, human consciousness, insects, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, natural selection, naturalism, panpsychism, Princeton University Press, protozoans, qualia, Queen Mary University, Scientific American, sentience, The Mind of a Bee, Tufts University}

Bees with Feelings? A Darwinist Winces

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 30, 2024

Chemistry, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Most naturalist philosophers of mind have held that human consciousness — maddeningly mysterious — is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
March 5, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, application, birds, bobcats, butterflies, capsids, deadline, deer, evolution, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, intelligent design, mice, molecules, nature, philosophers, qualia, Quanta, science, scientists, students, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers}

Summer Seminar on ID Is a Glorious (and Cost-Free) Opportunity

_{Emily Sandico
March 5, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The setting is idyllic — towers of red rock and ponderous pines, and numberless critters, from deer to bobcats to garter snakes (I caught a cute one). Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 6, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain hemispheres, consciousness, eliminative materialism, Iain McGilchrist, Justin Brierley, neuroscience, panpsychism, psychiatry, qualia, Scientific American, The Matter with Things, Unbelievable}

Understanding the Mind: A Neuroscientist and a Psychiatrist Walk into a…

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 6, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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What’s most interesting about this discussion is how well the life of the intellect, engaged by science, gets on without guidance from eliminative materialism. Read More ›

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Author
Emily Sandico

Date
July 6, 2023

Categories
Cosmology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, bobcats, capsids, Colorado, deer, education, fermions, fossils, garter snakes, intelligent design, men, mice, molecules, nature, qualia, Quanta, Summer Seminars on Intelligent Design, teachers}

Glorious — My First Summer Seminar on ID

_{Emily Sandico
July 6, 2023

Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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For unnumbered hours we basked in the shared light of the pursuit of truth through good science and sound philosophy. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, apes, chimpanzees, Closer to Truth, genomes, illusion, Julian Baggini, lichens, neurons, neuroscience, qualia, redness, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, rocks, scientific explanation, self}

Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2022

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Philosophy, Science

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Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”? Read More ›

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Author
Amanda Witt

Date
July 13, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Baylor University, Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, brain, computers, creativity, divine image, Elon Musk, emotion, heart, hormones, humans, humor, machines, mercy, neurons, Non-Computable You, programmers, qualia, religion, Robert J. Marks II, Siri, software, soul, Stephen Hawking, understanding, wetware}

The Difference Between Humans and Machines

_{Amanda Witt
July 13, 2022

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why do news headlines continually suggest that AI is practically human already, and soon will become fully human? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 6, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan Turing, algorithms, Baylor University, computation, computer science, computers, consciousness, creativity, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, emotion, faith, future, humans, immortality, intelligent design, machines, mathematician, Non-Computable You, qualia, Ray Kurzweil, Robert J. Marks II, sentience, Singularity, speed, spirituality, Turing Machine, understanding, William A. Dembski}

Marks: Non-Computable You Won’t Achieve Immortality Through an AI Machine

_{David Klinghoffer
July 6, 2022

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dreams of achieving immortality by having your consciousness uploaded, merging man and computer in the predicted 2045 “Singularity,” are just that — dreams. Read More ›

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
June 24, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", algorithms, artificial intelligence, computers, consciousness, creativity, emergence, experience, human brain, immortality, mimicry, Non-Computable You, qualia, robots, sentience, Steven Spielberg, strong AI, understanding}

No Pony in the Manure, No Consciousness in the Code

_{Robert J. Marks II
June 24, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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These AI champions are appealing to the Software of the Gaps, a secular cousin of the God of the Gaps. Read More ›