Does Quantum Mechanics Help Make Sense of the Soul?

Bayesian reasoning, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, consciousness, COSM 2025, Faith & Science, George Gilder, immaterial reality, information, Jay W. Richards, life after death, Measurement Problem, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgeons, physics, quantum mechanics, Roger Penrose, Technology, The Human Advantage
Quantum mechanics seems to be the game-changer that Albert Einstein (1879–1955) feared it would be. It is certain to liven up discussions about the soul. Source
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At COSM, Sharing Information Is Key to Solving Tech Problems

academic freedom, Andrew Mayne, Arizona, artificial inteligence, China, Computational Sciences, compute-in-memory, computer, COSM 2025, DRAM, flash graphene, flash tech, information, Intelligent Design, Interdimensional AI, James Tour, laptop, memory, NAND, Scottsdale, Search for ExtraTerrestrial Intelligence, SETI, Soviet Union, Technology, Travis Langster, voltage
Information is key to innovation, and a familiar question intelligent design asks is “Where does information come from?”  Source
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Calm Down, the Universe as a Simulation Is Mathematically Impossible

Computational Sciences, eliminative materialism, Ideas, information, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, Kurt Gödel, Lawrence Krauss, logical positivism, materialist atheism, Michelle Starr, Okanagan, philosophers, physics, Plato, Platonic forms, Skynet, Terminator, universe, University of British Columbia
The idea that information underlies the universe is compatible with the very intelligent design theory that Lawrence Krauss has opposed in the past. Source
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For Good or Evil: The Contradictory Legacy of James D. Watson

Africa, animals, atheists, cellular operations, Christie’s, codes, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, digital code, DNA, double helix, Evolution, faith, Francis Crick, genes, genetic isolation, genetics, history, Human Zoos, humans beings, information, intelligence, Intelligent Design, intelligent designer, James D. Watson, John West, language, Maurice Wilkins, nihilism, Nobel Prize, Plato's Revenge, Race, Racism, religion, Richard Dawkins, Richard Sternberg, sequence hypothesis, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Information Enigma, theism
Let’s hope that whoever writes the future history of science will, like the bidder for that Nobel medal, be merciful to him. Source
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On the Origin of Science and Culture Today

ampersand, athan Jacobson, bookmark, Center for Science and Culture, creationism, Discernment, Discovery Institute, Evolution, Evolution News, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, Larry Sanger, Möbius strip, Nathan Jacobson, News Media, Podcast, Rob Crowther, Science and Culture, Science and Culture Today, Science Reporting
First, the conversation delves into the site’s launch in December 2004, when the modern intelligent design movement and the Internet were both relatively new. Source
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Here’s the Venn Diagram from My Conversation with Denis Noble 

biologists, biology, Casey Luskin, Conference on Engineering in Living Systems, Denis Noble, differences, Discovery Institute, Engineering, engineers, environmental changes, Evolution, function, ID 3.0, information, Intelligent Design, intention, natural selection, Neo-Darwinism, Perry Marshall, poster, purpose, random mutation, randomness, similarities, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, top-down design, Venn diagram
While preparing for the conversation, I created the diagram comparing the similarities and differences among three viewpoints. Source
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Slime Mold: Thanks for the Memories

biology, brain, Cambridge University, cell, decision-making, detritus, food, French National Centre for Scientific Research, habituation, information, Intelligent Design, labyrinth, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Matthew Sims, mazes, memory, navigation, Neuroscience & Mind, nuclei, Physarum polycephalum, Plasmodium, railway network, slime mold, Slime Mould and Philosophy, Tokyo, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, trails
In recent decades, researchers have been learning about memory in slime molds which have neither a brain nor neurons. Source
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As a Platonist, Sternberg Is NOT Out on a Limb by Himself — At All

Andreas Wagner, biology, Brian Miller, cellular structures, computer scientists, Daniel Witt, David Deutsch, DNA, eric hedin, Evolution, Evolution News, George F. R. Ellis, Günter Bechly, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, Jay Richards, Jonathan Wells, life, mathematical biology, mathematicians, Max Tegmark, Michael Egnor, Michael Levin, mind, organisms, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, Platonism, Roger Penrose, The Immortal Mind, time and space, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg
What I’ve learned since my book came out is that Dr. Sternberg, far from being isolated in his views, is only saying the quiet part out loud. Source
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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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