Tag: self-awareness

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 22, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Ben Goldfarb, brains, captivity, chimpanzees, Chloe Stevens, Darwinian assumptions, humans, intelligence, mice, moral choice, nature, Nautilus, neurons, octopuses, pain, primates, reason, researchers, rodents, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, self-awareness}

On Fish Intelligence, We’re Misled by Darwinian Assumptions

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 22, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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The world of life is full of intelligence. Its intensity varies not with distance from the supposedly accidental human but with the life form’s need for it. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 31, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, baboons, mirror, Namibia, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, self-awareness, University College London}

Wild Baboons Fail the Mirror Self-Awareness Test

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 31, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

In a video, it seems clear that not one of the animals recognizes that the figure in the mirror is a reflection of itself. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
November 6, 2023

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, animals, anthropomorphism, bacteria, behavior, Chapman University, Curiosity rover, Darwinians, Duke University, flowers, herbivores, intelligence, intelligent design, leaves, memory, Nature (journal), nitrogen, programming, self-awareness, synthetic organic chemistry, tentacles, The New Yorker, trees, Wesley Smith}

The Superior Programming that Makes Plants Look Smart

_{David Coppedge
November 6, 2023

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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Two signaling molecules — strigolactone and ethylene — can work independently to begin the process of leaf senescence. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 8, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, artificial intelligence, babies, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, medicine, persons, Peter Singer, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, unborn baby, unconsciousness}

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 8, 2023

Bioethics, Medicine, Philosophy

3}

Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 26, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adrenaline, algorithms, artificial intelligence, Blake Lemoine, computer science, DNA, emotions, engineers, feelings, free will, Google, human cells, imagination, Isaac Asimov, LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, life, love, machines, materialists, René Descartes, self-awareness, sentience, software, soul, Stanford University, toaster, Washington Post, William Hurlbut}

Five Reasons Why AI Programs Are Not “Human”

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 26, 2022

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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A Google engineer, Blake Lemoine, mistakenly designated one AI program "sentient." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 24, 2022

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, abortion, animals, anti-human exceptionalism, communication, culture, dog, emotion, environmentalism, euthanasia, horse, human rights, humans, memory, New York University, nonhumans, self-awareness, self-determination}

Professor: We Shouldn’t Necessarily Value Humans Over Other Animals

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 24, 2022

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism

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NYU environmentalism prof Jeff Sebo argues that humans are not always rational and that some animals display mental qualities so we aren’t exceptional. Read More ›

Fire show, dancing with flame, male master juggling with fireworks, performance outdoors, draws a fiery figure in the dark, bright sparks in the night. A man in a suit LED dances with fire.

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Author
Jonathan Witt

Date
October 14, 2016

Categories
Faith & Science
Philosophy
Scientific Trustworthiness
Tagged
, __tedited, consciousness, Darwinism as religion, evolutionary argument against naturalism, human mind, Michael Ruse, Mind and Cosmos, misrepresentation, New Atheists, nihilism, self-awareness, straw man, Thomas Nagel}

Roasting a Straw Man: Evolutionist Michael Ruse on Thomas Nagel

_{Jonathan Witt
October 14, 2016

Faith & Science, Philosophy, Scientific Trustworthiness

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You're driving along and notice that a bright philosopher has just mangled beyond recognition the argument of another bright philosopher. Read More ›

Inexperienced painter painted having problems, The concept of working problems.

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 14, 2016

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, aboutness, Cartesian dualism, consciousness, David Chalmers, dualism, hard problem of consciousness, hylomorphism, intentionality, materialism, mind, neuroscience, Reductionism, René Descartes, Scholastics, self-awareness, sensations, substance dualism, Thomism}

What Is Consciousness?

_{Michael Egnor
July 14, 2016

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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René Descartes in the 17th century created the Hard Problem of consciousness, out of whole cloth. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 11, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __tedited, brain processes, computation, computational processing, consciousness, intentionality, machine cognition, machine metaphor, meaninglessness, methodological materialism, mind-brain problem, self-awareness}

Your Deluded Brain Thinks It’s Conscious!

_{Michael Egnor
July 11, 2016

Computational Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Nonsense in neuroscience is a deep well. This is just in from Princeton's Michael Graziano. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
May 12, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Faith & Science
Sociology
Tagged
, __tedited, atheism, Darwin: Portrait of a Genius, human exceptionalism, human life, Paul Johnson, Peter Singer, purpose, Richard Weikart, secular culture, self-awareness, Social Darwinism, Susan Blackmore}

Debating Weikart, Peter Singer and Susan Blackmore Omit Atheism’s Glaring Contradictions

_{Michael Flannery
May 12, 2016

Bioethics, Faith & Science, Sociology

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I find troubling Singer's barometer of human worth -- tied to self-awareness -- leading as it does to dangerous nonsense. Read More ›