09Sep 2025 by Post

Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

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If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Source
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17Jul 2025 by Post

Slime Mold: Thanks for the Memories

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In recent decades, researchers have been learning about memory in slime molds which have neither a brain nor neurons. Source
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06Jun 2025 by Post

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

algorithms, Brian Miller, cognition, David Klinghoffer, decision-making, DNA, embryos, Evolution, genes, genetics, Harvard University, ID The Future, immaterial genome, information, Intelligent Design, life, Michael Levin, nucleotide alteration, physicalism, physicists, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Podcast, purpose, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, scientific revolution, software, splicing, teleonomy, Tufts University
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. Source
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30Apr 2025 by Post

Information Processing: An Unnatural Attribute of Life

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The purpose-driven responsiveness of living systems to information appears as a truly confounding enigma for naturalistic explanations Source
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29Apr 2024 by Post

Do Fungi Have Free-Will?

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Whenever a new hypothesis like this is published and calmly debated in scientific journals without arousing any furor, your first instinct may be to scoff. Source
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27Dec 2023 by Post

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

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Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Source
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