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13Aug 2023 by Post

Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check

Adam Marcus, COVID-19, Francesca Gino, Harvard Business School, honesty, Ivan Oransky, John Ioannidis, mathematics, Matt Ridley, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, neuroscientists, Retraction Watch, scandal, science, Stanford University, The Guardian, Theo Baker, Times Higher Education

In the wake of the Stanford scandal, the reasons why science often ISN’T self-correcting are attracting much more attention. Source

08Aug 2023 by Post

Barbie’s Subtle Critique of Transhumanism?

Barbenheimer, Barbie, body, cellulite, contentment, Culture & Ethics, Elayne Allen, girls, Greta Gerwig, Helen Andrews, joy, men, movies, Neuroscience & Mind, Oppenheimer, philosophy, pink, Public Discourse, steadiness, transhumanism, wombs, women, wrinkles

The transhumanists want to escape the body into a dreamlike utopia. It will be fully artificial and completely boring. Source

04Aug 2023 by Post

Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness

blindness, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Euler's Identity, Evolution, evolutionary epistemology, Ezequiel Morsella, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Leonhard Euler, materialists, mathematics, mind, Nancy Pearcey, Neuroscience & Mind, rationality, Richard Dawkins, San Francisco State University, self-referential absurdity, self-referential fallacy, Theodosius Dobzhansky, William Provine, zombies

Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival? Source

03Aug 2023 by Post

Mind, Brain, Soul: What’s the Difference? Find Out at the 2023 Westminster Conference

brain, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin Day in America, Faith & Science, faith and science, free will, John West, materialists, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, mind, Neuroscience & Mind, physiology, Redeeming Science, Sam Harris, sexuality, society, soul, Stony Brook University, The Miracle of Man, theology, Vern Poythress, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, Westminster Theological Seminary

Sam Harris has said that “You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.” Source

02Aug 2023 by Post

Craig, Moreland: Two Philosophers Discuss Aliens and Artificial Intelligence

aliens, Artificial Intelligence, Biola University, consciousness, Culture, Culture & Ethics, dating, extraterrestrial life, Faith & Science, friendship, Internet, J.P. Moreland, marriage, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy of mind, Sean McDowell, sexuality, Technology, virtual existence, william lane craig, worship

As an old professor of mine told me in an email recently: “Long live visceral proximity!” Source

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

30Jul 2023 by Post

In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”

Abram, Artificial Intelligence, caterpillars, consciousness, Derek Cabrera, emergence, empathy, Evolution, evolutionary theory, explanations, Genesis, intelligence, language, materialism, mind, monotheism, Neuroscience & Mind, origin of life, promissory materialism, religion, RNA, robotics, socialization, transcendental aesthetics, Yervant Kulbashian

The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any. Source

27Jul 2023 by Post

Neuroscientist Vows: We’ll Nail Consciousness Yet!

Anil Seth, beast machine theory, Being You, body, brain, British Festival of Neuroscience, Christof Koch, consciousness, consciousness spot, David Chalmers, hallucinations, human brain, James Pang, Life Sciences, Monash University, Nature (journal), Nautilus, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Turner Institute for Brain and Mental Health, University of Sussex

Anil Seth, proponent of the “hallucination” theory of consciousness, vows that researchers will find that consciousness spot or circuit in the brain. Source

24Jul 2023 by Post

Appreciating Bird Mimicry and the Other Exceptional, Designed Talents

Arctic terns, bird mimicry, birds, brain, budgerigars, camera rotation, Clover, cockatiels, combat aircraft, Current Biology, drones, Duke University, Evolution, flight recordings, hummingbird, Intelligent Design, keas, Live Science, lovebirds, lyrebird, Medical Xpress, migration, mimicry, mockingbird, Neuroscience & Mind, newlyweds, odor map, odors, parakeets, parrots, phytoplankton, PLOS ONE, salmon, smells, stabilization, starlings, vocabulary, vocal apparatus, wind directions, zoologists

Let the reader enjoy the 350+ word vocabulary of Clover, alleged to be the best talking parrot in the world. Source

15Jul 2023 by Post

Can the Quantum Realm Explain Reality?

David Berlinski, Eucharist, IAI News, infinitesimal, Micrographia, microscopes, Neuroscience & Mind, observation, paradigm shift, philosophers, Physics, Earth & Space, quantum mechanics, quantum realm, reality, Robert Hooke, Science After Babel, telescopes, weirdness

If we can uncover the smallest quantum particles in nature, will we have uncovered the fundamental secrets of reality? Source

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