01Aug 2023 by Post

Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research

Andrew Peterson, brain, Cait Kearney, Canada, consciousness, deeply forgetful, dementia, Dignity for Deeply Forgetful People, euthanasia, lucidity, Medicine, memory, neurobiology, neurodegenerative diseases, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, paradoxical lucidity, Parnia Lab, Penn Memory Center, Stephen Post, Stony Brook University
The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Source
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06Jul 2023 by Post

The Human Body as a Marvel of Engineering

Center on Human Exceptionalism, Discovery Institute, Engineering, engineers, heritability, Howard Glicksman, human body, Humanize, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Medicine, natural selection, neo-Darwinian theory, Podcast, random mutation, Steve Laufmann, Wesley J. Smith, Your Designed Body
“The systems that are required to make the human body work,” says Steve Laufmann, “are exactly the kinds of things that engineers design and build.” Source
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03Jul 2023 by Post

The Design of the Seminal Fluid and Sperm Capacitation

acrosome, antibodies, ATP, capacitation, cilia, clotting factors, contraceptives, egg, egg membrane, enzymes, Evolution, fibrin, flagellum, foresight, fructose, head, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, liquefaction, male infertility, Medicine, middle piece, non-hormonal contraceptives, reproductive tract, semen, seminal fluid, seminal vesicles, serine proteases, sperm cells, zona pellucida
There is no cause in the universe that is known to have such a capacity of foresight other than intelligent design. Source
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29Jun 2023 by Post

Canadian Disabled Woman Opts for Euthanasia Because She Can’t Get Timely Assistance

abandonment, bioethics, Bowmanville, Canada, CBC, compassion, Culture & Ethics, disability, disabled people, doctors, euthanasia, health care, housing, Inclusive Solutions, MAiD, medical assistance in dying, Medicine, nurse practitioners, Ontario, Ontario Disability Support Program, PTSD, quadriplegia, Rose Finlay, social injustice, veterans
I am hearing about this kind of abandonment much more often since Canada loosened its euthanasia eligibility requirements. Source
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08May 2023 by Post

Peter Singer Compares Abortion to Turning Off a Computer

abortion, Artificial Intelligence, babies, bioethics, ChatGPT, chimpanzees, computer, Culture & Ethics, dementia, human life, humans, infanticide, infants, Medicine, moral collapse, persons, Peter Singer, philosophy, pregnancy, Princeton University, self-awareness, sentience, sentient beings, unborn baby, unconsciousness, Yahoo News
Singer first claims that should an AI ever become “sentient,” turning it off would be akin to killing a being with the highest moral value. Source
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