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07Apr 2022 by Post

Evolutionary Psychologist Argues that Worms Feel Pain. But How?

Aimen Mirza, alarm system, biology, David Barash, earthworms, endothermic life, Evolution, evolutionary psychology, exothermic life, intelligence, invertebrates, Nautilus, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, pain, panpsychism, Richard Dawkins, sentience, slaughter, Through a Glass Brightly, University of Washington, Wormmy

Wait. Barash’s hypothesis overlooks the fact that suffering is more than an alarm system. An alarm could be going off in an empty building. Source

05Apr 2022 by Post

Did Researchers Teach Fish to “Do Math”?

arithmetic, bees, cichlids, counting, fish, food pellets, infants, Intelligent Design, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, numbers, Rafael Núñez, Silke Goebel, Sophie Fessl, stringrays, The Scientist, UC San Diego

Some test fish learned how to how to get food pellets but the difficulty, as so often, lies with interpretation. Source

02Apr 2022 by Post

A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

Albert Einstein, brain, consciousness, David Papineau, general relativity, materialism, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, New Scientist, panpsychism, Philip Goff, physicalism, physicists, physics, Physics, Earth & Space, quantum world, Thomas Lewton

“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead. Source

27Mar 2022 by Post

Are Birds Really Smarter than Reptiles?

animal behavior, babies, birds, brain size, brain volume, cognitive capacity, Cornell University, cuckoo, Diane Colombelli-Négrel, eggs, facial recognition, fairy wrens, intelligence, Intelligent Design, lemurs, lizards, Malurus cyaneus, neurons, Neuroscience & Mind, Pavel Němec, penguins, reptiles, The Scientist

Scientists clash over how to measure animal intelligence: brain volume, brain organization, numbers of neurons…? Source

12Mar 2022 by Post

Faith in God Is the Only Coherent Basis for Reason

atheists, Christianity, evolutionary biologists, existence, Fact, faith, Faith & Science, Faith vs. Fact, Jerry Coyne, knowledge, logic, Neuroscience & Mind, non-contradiction, reason, René Descartes, skepticism, theists, thinking, Thomas Aquinas, truth

Atheists commonly assert that there is a profound dichotomy between faith and reason. Source

03Mar 2022 by Post

The Remarkable Things We’re Learning About Bird Intelligence

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These findings are only among birds that have actually been studied; most birds have not been studied for intelligence. Source

11Feb 2022 by Post

Can Insects Be Conscious? Let’s Look at Bees First

Andrew Barron, Australia, biology, central complex, Colin Klein, consciousness, Evolution, honeybees, human consciousness, insects, Intelligent Design, Macquarie University, midbrain, Neuroscience & Mind, phenomenal consciousness, PNAS, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Smithsonian Magazine

It is important to qualify what “consciousness” means when we are talking about bees. Source

24Jan 2022 by Post

Theists vs. Atheists: Who Has the Burden of Proof?

atheists, debate, Divine Hiddenness argument, Evidence, faith, Faith & Science, ground of existence, ignorance, immunity idol, logic, Matt Dillahunty, nature, Neuroscience & Mind, theists, tribal immunity

Because Dillahunty refuses to debate me again, I’ll address his claim that atheists have no burden of proof in the debate over God’s existence in this post. Source

05Jan 2022 by Post

Does Superdeterminism Resolve Dilemmas Around Free Will?

Acts, Augustus, beliefs, block universe, determinism, free will, John Bell, laws of nature, materialists, nature, Neuroscience & Mind, physicists, Physics, Earth & Space, quantum mechanics, Sabine Hossenfelder, Superdeterminism, universe

The conventional view of nature held by materialists is that all acts are wholly determined by the laws of nature. Source

17Nov 2021 by Post

Harvard U Press Computer Science Author Gives AI a Reality Check

algebra, ambiguity, artificial general intelligence, Artificial Intelligence, audience, computer science, computers, COSM 2021, Discovery Institute, Erik Larson, grocery store, Harvard University Press, humans, Jeopardy, Neuroscience & Mind, News Media, philosophy, reality check, superintelligence, The Myth of Artificial Intelligence

The key missing ingredient in machine intelligence is the ability to appreciate context, do analysis, and make appropriate inferences. Source

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