Tag: words

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Author
George Montañez

Date
February 25, 2026

Categories
Computational Sciences
Human Exceptionalism
Tagged
, animals, arithmetic, artificial inteligence, attention, bigram model, Claude, Claude Shannon, coherence, comprehension, computer code, conversations, Data Processing Inequality, disinformation, embedding, English, fish, food, functional capability, games, generative AI systems, GPT-5, humans, incompleteness theorem, information theory, Kurt Gödel, large language models, mathematical reasoning, model collapse, music, numbers, pixels, poetry, processing, prompts, reasoning, René Magritte, semantics, statistical patterns, syntax, The Treachery of Images, tokens, vectors, video, William Shakespeare, word approximation, words}

Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally

_{George Montañez
February 25, 2026

Computational Sciences, Human Exceptionalism

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The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 20, 2025

Categories
Computational Sciences
Technology
Tagged
, ambition, artificial general intelligence, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, computer, COSM 2025, Discovery Institute, hallucinations, Microsoft, numbers, OpenAI, pixels, Star Trek, technology, Terminator, words}

Tech Exec Speaks Truth About AI at COSM

_{Casey Luskin
November 20, 2025

Computational Sciences, Technology

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When AI assistants were first released, AI companies faced a problem: people were hesitant. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aboutness, An Idol for Destruction (series), artificial general intelligence, autism, B. F. Skinner, ChatGPT, chess, Elon Musk, Erik Larson, G.K. Chesterton, Go (game), human bodies, large language models, machines, Noam Chomsky, rabbits, René Descartes, self-driving cars, Tesla, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence, words}

Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus

_{William A. Dembski
January 30, 2024

Bioethics, Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Arabic, bacteria, biofilm, bioluminescence, Darwinian evolution, Denyse O'Leary, engineers, Finland, GUT, intelligent design, Jonathan McLatchie, languages, microbes, migration, MIT, quorum sensing, rocks, slime molds, The Design Inference, words, World War II}

Quorum Sensing: A Clever Trick by Microbes

_{David Coppedge
December 13, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

9}

Robot designers are learning tricks from bacteria: how to communicate with and respond to other unseen members of a swarm. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 10, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, chatbot, ChatGPT, Chinese Room, computer science, John Searle, self-reference, sentences, truth, words}

How to Break ChatGPT

_{William A. Dembski
May 10, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

One problem it has consistently displayed, and which shows that it lacks understanding, is its difficulty dealing with self-reference. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 28, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, Arizona State University, chihuahua, Dogs, emotions, humans, intelligent design, National Geographic, sentences, signals, words}

Dogs Understand Many More Words than We Think

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 28, 2022

Intelligent Design, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

3}

Of course, the dog is responding to words as signals, not as components of sentences. Read More ›

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Date
March 14, 2019

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, __k-review, analogy, architecture, Boltzmann brain, codons, Darwinian evolution, entropy, Eugene Koonin, hopeful monster, information, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, letters, Michael Behe, multicellularity, multiverse, natural selection, nucleotides, PNAS, proteome, semantic information, words}

Proteome Is Analogous to Language

_{Science & Culture
March 14, 2019

Biology, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

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A paper likens the proteome to a language with a “quasi-universal grammar” possessing the minimum complexity necessary to function as a cell. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 31, 2016

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract thought, behaviorism, communication, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human language, immaterial mind, language, language organ, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, universals, words}

Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
August 31, 2016

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

6}

I think that Noam Chomsky is fundamentally right, and I am skeptical of Daniel Everett's claim. Read More ›