Tag: Trinity College Dublin

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, Benjamin Libet, brain, compatibilism, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, Determined (book), evolution, Free Agents, free will, Kevin Mitchell, materialists, muscles, neurobiology, neuroscientists, randomness, Robert Sapolsky, Trinity College Dublin}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?

_{Daniel Witt
March 4, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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If you pick up a book up about free will by a materialist, you are generally safe to assume that the point will be to explain that free will is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 23, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Al Gore, behavior, Bill Clinton, birds, brain tissue, consciousness, Francis Crick, George Musser, human mind, materialism, neurons, New Scientist, organoids, proteins, Roger Penrose, Stuart Hameroff, Trinity College Dublin}

Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 23, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 16, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, 1984 (novel), Bertrand Russell, bias, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, epistemic virtues, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, rigor, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William A. Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson}

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

_{David Coppedge
January 16, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, baby, birth, children, Christof Koch, consciousness, dreaming, fetuses, hard problem of consciousness, Integrated information theory, neuroscience, newborn, pregnancy, Robert Wright, synaptic connections, Thomas Nagel, Trinity College Dublin, unborn humans}

Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
October 6, 2020

Categories
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Darwin on Trial, David Berlinski, Duquesne University, evolution, Instagram, intelligent design, Islam, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Michael Ruse, Neo-Darwinism, petition, Pittsburgh, Richard Dawkins, sexual assault, The College Fix, Trinity College Dublin}

Free Speech for Richard Dawkins? Absolutely!

_{Paul Nelson
October 6, 2020

Scientific Freedom

3}

In 1987, a harmless graduate student who wanted to take on the dreadful giant neo-Darwinism might be an entertaining spectacle. Read More ›

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Date
March 11, 2020

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Genetics
Tagged
, __edited, Ann Gauger, Center for Science and Culture, Charles Thaxton, Douglas Axe, evolution, genes, homologues, ID the Future, Illustra Media, junk DNA, Metazoa, natural selection, Nature Communications, non-coding DNA, orphan genes, Paul Nelson, probability, proto-genes, Roger Olsen, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, Trinity College Dublin, Walter Bradley}

Researchers: It Exists; Therefore, It Evolved

_{Science and Culture
March 11, 2020

Biology, Evolution, Genetics

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According to some reporters and Darwinists, evolutionary theory today needs no more confirmation than existence. Evolution is a fact, remember? Read More ›

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Date
May 4, 2018

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, central dogma, DNA, epigenetics, Heretic: One Scientist’s Journey from Darwin to Design, junk DNA, Matti Leisola, Max Planck Institute, New England Journal of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, University of Michigan, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

Genetics Leaves Central Dogma and Junk DNA in the Rear-View Mirror

_{Science and Culture
May 4, 2018

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Genetics is now a subset of epigenetics, in which multiple dynamic molecules play key roles in homeostasis. Read More ›