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Life’s Informational Discontinuities: Where Unintelligent Processes Fail

In our experience, this type of specified information always comes from a mind, whether it’s hieroglyphics or the origin of a car. 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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Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›
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Additional Method of Analysis Confirms Human-Chimp Genomes Are About 15 Percent Different

This number is only looking at the non-sex chromosomes. When you look at the sex chromosomes, the differences seem to be even greater. Read More ›
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Sternberg Reveals the Truths that Give Life

Additional support for the plausibility of the immaterial nature of the genome can perhaps be found from implications of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Read More ›
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Here’s the Other Common Objection to Intelligent Design — Answered

If you asked me, “Do you believe in evolution?” I would reply “I believe in the evolution of life, and the evolution of automobiles." Read More ›
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Top Five Questions on the Origin of Language — Answered!

We aren’t even sure which is the world’s oldest spoken language, though Hebrew, Arabic, and Chinese have impressively long histories. Read More ›
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Artificial General Intelligence: AI’s Temptation to Theft Over Honest Toil

The worry is — and it’s a legitimate worry — that our environments will increasingly be altered to accommodate AI. Read More ›
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Paper Digest: Standard Engineering Principles as a Predictive Framework for Biology

Human designing and building have resulted in lists of standard engineering principles which must be followed to produce efficient, robust systems. Read More ›
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What’s Driving Darwin’s Driverless Car?

What drives natural selection? Evolutionary forces. What are evolutionary forces? They’re what drive natural selection. Read More ›

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