Tag: trees

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Cultural Anthropology
Tagged
, Aldous Huxley, algorithms, animals, anthropomorphism, artificial intelligence, Brave New World, cars, chatbots, children, communication, concentration, culture, Delusion, dog care, electronic media, human minds, humans, love, Mind Matters News, Podosphaera leucotricha, polar bears, powdery mildew, Psychology Today, reading, relationships, Richard Stevens, science fiction, Tara Wells, tobacco, toys, trees}

With AI, Anthropomorphism Is High Stakes; But It May Be as Old as the Human Race

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 5, 2026

Computational Sciences, Cultural Anthropology

5}

Such relationships can lead to delusional spirals, including marrying a bot. One man proposed to his bot when he feared it would run out of memory. Read More ›

United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 30, 2026

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, AKET Fund, Alfred Kobacker, bees, commodities, earth religion, economic thriving, Elizabeth Trimbach Fund, fossil fuel, General Assembly, glaciers, Green Party, House of Lords, human freedom, indigenous knowledge, minerals, mountains, National Geographic Society, nature, oil, Panama, progress, rivers, timber, trees, United Nations, waves}

Nature Rights — Now Coming to the United Nations

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 30, 2026

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism

4}

The potential harm to human thriving and to our self-perception as an exceptional species cannot be overstated. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ant swarms, Audrey Dussutour, biology, brain, carbon, cognition, consciousness, cuttlefish, eliminative materialism, eyes, fungi, Hokkaido University, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, jellyfish, limbs, Michael Levin, mouth, nuclei, oat flakes, panpsychism, Physarum polycephalum, plants, protoplasm, Samanth Subramanian, silicon, The Guardian, Tokyo, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, trees}

Slime Smarts: These Brainless Blobs Are Brighter than You Thought

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 28, 2026

Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some want to claim that slime molds poses a threat to the idea that humans are exceptional. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 6, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, art, atoms, calculus, Carlo Rovelli, chimpanzees, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Dogs, electrons, great apes, higher power, human consciousness, human language, humans, intelligent design, language, laughter, literature, Michael Egnor, mud, panpsychism, Patricia Churchland, Paul Churchland, sand dollar, speech, squirrels, trees, universe}

Human Consciousness, from Mud to Mind?

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 6, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

If human language — which is unlike any other communication in nature — evolved from something, we simply have no idea what that something is. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
June 17, 2026

Categories
Earth Sciences
Intelligent Design
Planetology
Tagged
, atmosphere, biology, carbon, combustion, computer chips, cosmos, disclosure, Disclosure Day, Discovery Institute Press, Earth’s crust, environmental fitness, extraterrestrials, fire, Goldilocks Zone, government, hominins, Homo erectus, hydrological cycle, intelligent design, knuckle-walking, lasers, magnets, metallurgy, metals, Michael Denton, oxygen molecules, photosynthesis, plant matter, PLOS ONE, primal blueprint, purpose, respiration, semiconductors, South Africa, space, spacecraft, Steven Spielberg, sugars, technology, The Miracle of Man, tools, trees, UFOs, universe, Wonderwerk Cave, wood}

Michael Denton’s Work Shows ETs in UFOs Would Not Exist in a Purposeless Universe

_{Casey Luskin
June 17, 2026

Earth Sciences, Intelligent Design, Planetology

9}

Fire is a central part of human existence, and it’s a necessary requirement for building technology, whether primitive or complex. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
January 12, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, bipedalism, Chad, chimpanzees, common ancestor, Haaretz, hominins, human origins, John Hawks, Journal of Human Evolution, knuckle-walking, Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, Leipzig, Marine Cazenave, Martin Pickford, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Michael Brunet, Milford H. Wolpoff, Nature (journal), New Scientist, New York University, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, Rhianna Drummond-Clarke, Roberto Macchiarelli, Sahelanthropus tchadensis, Science Advances, Scientific American, Scott Williams, Toumaï, trees, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Washington Post}

New Paper Fails to Settle Debate Over Bipedalism in Sahelanthropus tchadensis

_{Casey Luskin
January 12, 2026

Evolution, Human Origins and Anthropology

8}

Many have called this fossil a human ancestor that lived at about 7 million years ago, around the time of our supposed most recent common ancestor with chimps. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
September 29, 2025

Categories
Astronomy
Ethics
Planetology
Tagged
, animals, astrobiology, comprehension, Elon Musk, ethicists, geological features, indigenous people, International Court of Justice, Mars, moons, nature rights, planets, solar system, space exploration, trees, waves}

Now, It’s Rights for Planets, Moons, and Space Microbes

_{Wesley J. Smith
September 29, 2025

Astronomy, Ethics, Planetology

3}

The ultimate purpose in granting such rights would be to disincentivize investments in space exploration and keep us Gaia-bound. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
September 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, clouds, Eugene Wigner, France, Galileo Galilei, geometry, Gregor Mendel, Ignaz Semmelweis, Jews, mathematics, mountains, Nazis, Poland, reputation, Science (journal), Science News, trees, truth, U.S. National Academy of Sciences, William Harvey}

Benoît B. Mandelbrot: A Maverick Who Broke the Consensus

_{David Coppedge
September 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Mathematics

9}

The Mandelbrot set reminds me of the Fibonacci series that, in a similar way, gives rise to aesthetically pleasing patterns in a wide variety of natural phenomena. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

6}

Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
June 18, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Tagged
, billionaires, China, environment, environmentalism, glaciers, heat, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, human rights, human uniqueness, humans, nature, nature rights, oceans, Oxford University, plastics, trees, United Nations}

UN Pushes Nature Rights

_{Wesley J. Smith
June 18, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences

4}

The United Nations’ High Commissioner for Human Rights stated in a recent speech at Oxford University that nature rights are equivalent to human rights. Read More ›