Angus Menuge,
animals,
Artificial Intelligence,
bacon,
Benjamin Libet,
brain,
C. elegans,
ChatGPT,
computer,
Denyse O'Leary,
determinism,
Dogs,
free will,
free won't,
human exceptionalism,
Humanize,
large language models,
machines,
Medicine,
Michael Egnor,
mind,
Minding the Brain,
neural mechanisms,
neuroscience,
Neuroscience & Mind,
philosophy,
Podcast,
The Immortal Mind,
totalitarianism,
Wesley J. Smith
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor passionately argues that denying free will undermines moral responsibility and paves the way for totalitarian ideologies. Source
abstractions,
animal intelligence,
birds,
brains,
chickadees,
cockatoos,
common sense,
crows,
Evolution,
evolutionary biology,
Germany,
Giacomo Gattoni,
human exceptionalism,
humans,
intelligence,
Intelligent Design,
logic,
mammals,
Maria Antonietta Tosches,
Neuroscience & Mind,
Niklas Kempynck,
Onur Güntürkün,
problems,
ravens,
Ruhr University Bochum,
Science (journal),
vertebrates,
Yasemin Saplakoglu,
zoology
A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Source
aesthetics,
AI slop,
algorithm,
art,
articles,
Artificial Intelligence,
bioethics,
Books,
business,
Center for Science and Culture,
creative writing,
Culture,
headlines,
human exceptionalism,
humans,
Javanese,
Krakatoa,
life coach,
machines,
Microsoft,
Microsoft Copilot,
Mind Matters News,
Neuroscience & Mind,
nonsense,
personal assistant,
Peter Biles,
photographs,
Plato's Revenge,
Podcasts,
Ted Gioia,
writers
It’s all another lesson in human exceptionalism. I believe we will wake up from the AI delusion someday. Source
Adrian Woolfson,
Albert Einstein,
anti-human exceptionalism,
artificial general intelligence,
bioethics,
Children,
Christianity,
computers,
Denisovans,
Edward Gibbon,
Foundation for Economic Education,
Green Revolution,
Henry Gee,
Homo floresiensis,
Homo luzonensis,
human exceptionalism,
human extinction,
humans,
Lawrence W. Reed,
natural selection,
Neanderthals,
Neuroscience & Mind,
Science (journal),
The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Source
Artificial Intelligence,
babies,
bioethics,
computer software,
Endangered Species Act,
fish,
gestating human babies,
human exceptionalism,
image of God,
insects,
invertebrates,
Jeff Sebo,
life,
Life Sciences,
mammals,
microbes,
moral agents,
moral patients,
moral responsibility,
NYU,
philosophers,
plants,
The Moral Circle,
universe
Only a philosopher could claim seriously that humans owe significant moral duties to microbes. Source
A New Unified Theory of Psychology,
animals,
Aristotle,
behavior,
Culture & Ethics,
Dogs,
emotions,
evolutionary biologists,
Feelings,
Gregg Henriques,
human exceptionalism,
humans,
Marc Bekoff,
Michael Egnor,
moral choice,
Neuroscience & Mind,
prejudice,
psychology,
Psychology Today,
Racism,
reason,
secular humanists,
sensations,
sexism,
speciesism,
The Immortal Mind,
Thomas Aquinas,
Wesley J. Smith
Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Source
Africa,
Amanda Richardson,
animal behavior,
antiquity,
BBC News,
Bronze Age,
chimpanzees,
Claire Asher,
Côte D’Ivoire,
Culture & Ethics,
England,
Homo sapiens,
human exceptionalism,
human mind,
humans,
Ice Age,
Merlin,
metal tools,
monkeys,
Neuroscience & Mind,
New Stone Age,
paleontology,
polar bears,
Royal BC Museum,
Salisbury,
Stone Age,
stone tools,
vultures,
walruses
Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency. Source
Big Bang,
Casey Luskin,
chimps,
fossils,
genus Homo,
geologists,
hominids,
human exceptionalism,
Human Origins,
human race,
humans,
ID The Future,
Intelligent Design,
Podcast,
Richard Dawkins
Survive. Reproduce. Repeat. Is that all we’re here for? Some people make this claim. Source
Angels,
animals,
Bruce Chapman,
Center for Science and Culture,
Center for Wealth and Poverty,
creator,
Culture & Ethics,
drug addiction,
George Gilder,
guerrilla,
harm reduction,
homelessness,
housing first,
human being,
human exceptionalism,
Human Origins,
Humanize,
humans,
Intelligent Design,
Jonathan Choe,
journalism,
mental illness,
Steven Buri,
think tank,
vision,
Wesley J. Smith
That politicians and activists can watch their fellow men wallow in degradation this way is itself a twisted tribute to human exceptionalism. Source
Abigail Desmond,
abstraction,
animals,
archaeologists,
bragging rights,
capuchin monkeys,
chimpanzees,
crows,
debris,
dolphins,
environment,
hands,
Harvard University,
human exceptionalism,
Human Origins,
life forms,
Michael Haslam,
monkeys,
Neuroscience & Mind,
octopuses,
Oxford University,
Saturn V rocket,
sea urchins,
tool use,
tools
As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Source