03Feb 2026 by Post

Terminal Lucidity Points to Indestructible Personhood

abstract thought, brain, brain function, communication, consciousness, death, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, Human Identity, ID The Future, materialism, medical literature, Medicine, memories, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movements, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, physicalism, reason, seizures, sensations, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, Threshold
Why would the human mind sometimes appear strongest when the brain is weakest? We begin a two-part conversation discussing the phenomenon of terminal lucidity. Source
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29Aug 2025 by Post

Thanks to Our Screens, Heading Toward a Post-Literate Culture?

Bible, censorship, civilization, communication, COVID-19, economy, Education, Fahrenheit 451, governance, Guy Montag, James Marriott, Jared Henderson, literacy, literacy rates, memory, Newsweek, post-literate culture, Ray Bradbury, screens, stories, storytelling, Technology, Ted Gioia, television, Uncategorized, UnHerd, young people
Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities. Source
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22Aug 2025 by Post

In a Universe of Non-Living Matter, Communication Sets Us Apart

anatomy, auditory nerve, biochemistry, cochlea, communication, comprehension, ear, eardrum, eric hedin, expression, functionality, hair cells, hearing, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, irreducibly complex systems, lips, mouth, neurology, ossicles, pharynx, reception, speech, tongue, vocal cords
Communication is found across all life forms, from the signals sent by trees through fungal networks to the deep conversations we can have with each other. Source
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18Jun 2025 by Post

Reading Behe in Prison

accountability, Center for Science and Culture, coder, communication, cosmic force, Darwin's Black Box, Darwinism, designer, Discovery Institute Press, dishwashers, DNA, donation, drugs, Evolution, Evolution News, Faith & Science, faith and science, grandfather, humanity, ID Education Day, Intelligent Design, media, Michael Behe, monthly donation, mutation, naturalism, nature, prison, professors, sex, Summer Seminar, theistic evolution
With Darwin’s disciples preaching at him adamantly in the culture, Jeff felt no accountability to a seemingly hands-off God, if one existed at all. Source
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06Apr 2025 by Post

Implant Lets a Disabled Woman Speak Her Thoughts

anarthria, audible speech, brain, brain implant, brainstem stroke, California, cerebral cortex, communication, Engineering, frustration, internal speech, isolation, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, paralysis, speech, stroke, Tibi Puiu, voice synthesizer, ZME Science
The key benefit of the system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to three seconds. Source
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17Feb 2024 by Post

Ants “Think” Differently from Humans

algorithms, Animal Algorithms, anternet, ants, bees, Biosphere 2, communication, Deborah M. Gordon, entomologists, Eric Cassell, Europe, exoskeleton, honeydew, intelligence, John Whitfield, Life Sciences, Lost Animals, Neuroscience & Mind, pheromones, scent signals, South American, space exploration, Stanford University, termites, terrarium, wasps
There are some 20 quadrillion ants living in the world today. All species of ants are social; there are no known solitary ants. Source
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03Jul 2023 by Post

With Becket Cook, David Berlinski Discusses Speech as a Problem for Darwin, and More

animal life, animals, Becket Cook, Bible, communication, Darwinism, David Berlinski, discontinuity, Dogs, Evolution, externalization, human exceptionalism, Human Origins, humans, Jesuits, Ovid, pets, Science After Babel
Dog owners know that to look into your dog’s eyes is often to see that the dog has something he wishes to say but lacks the “machinery for externalization.” Source
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