02Aug 2025 by Post

How Understanding Points Beyond Physicalism

algorithms, Aristotle, Artificial Intelligence, brain processes, Brown University, cognitive science, computational mechanics, computationalism, computer science, computers, Epistemology, humans, Intellect, James F. Ross, John McCarthy, John Searle, Life Sciences, mind, modus tollens, Neuroscience & Mind, Pat Flynn, philosophy, Roderick Chisholm, Selmer Bringsjord, Thomas Aquinas, triangularity
A computer science professor shows, using logic, how you must be more than mere matter. Source
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17Jul 2025 by Post

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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15Jul 2025 by Post

Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi

awareness, computers, decay, decisions, fungi, fungus colony, humans, intelligence, Intelligent Design, Japan, learning, machines, machine cognition, memory, metacognition, Michelle Starr, nature rights, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, panpsychism, Phanerochaete velutina, rescue dogs, Science Alert, slime molds, thinking, Tohoku University, transhumanism, Yu Fukasawa
We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them. Source
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28Jun 2025 by Post

Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

abstractions, amphibians, animal art, Antone Martinho-Truswel, art, bear marks, beaver logs, birds, bison paths, cars, cave bears, cave painting, cephalopods, driving, Evolution, fish, Flight, human art, human consciousness, human exceptionalism, Lascaux cave, Michel Lorblanchet, natural selection, Neuroscience & Mind, Pech-Merle cave, reptiles, Sarah Newman, University of Sydney
This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Source
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17Jun 2025 by Post

Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief 

animal, annihilationists, behavior, Boston College, brain, death, disintegration, dying, ethics, evil, Faith & Science, flame, Good, Human, human body, human soul, immortality, Justice, Medicine, mind, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, number 7, Peter Kreeft, philosophy, physical world, plant, rational soul, terminal lucidity
The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Source
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14Jun 2025 by Post

Dr. Michael Egnor on His Own Spiritual Journey

Atheism, brain, brain damage, brain operations, chapel, Faith & Science, family crisis, human beings, human soul, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Medicine, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgeons, patients, Podcast, soul, The Immortal Mind, Worthy Books
His personal story, including a profound experience in a hospital chapel during a family crisis, became a turning point that challenged his atheism. Source
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09Jun 2025 by Post

How Can We Conceive of Perfection When We Never Experience it?

abstract thought, Aristotle, brain processes, brain state, circle, Concepts, Denyse O'Leary, human exceptionalism, immateriality, Intellect, Intelligent Design, line, logic, materialism, matter, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Perfection, soul, The Immortal Mind, triangle, truth
There are two ways we can think of a triangle. One way is to form a mental image, likely based on a triangle we have seen on a piece of paper. Source
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05Jun 2025 by Post

Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

astrocytoma, brain, cafeteria, Christianity, eternity, Faith & Science, Hope Is the First Dose, hospital, immortality, Lee Warren, left frontal lobe, life, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, Mystery of the Mind, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, neurosurgeons, Podcast, Skeptics, soul, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, tumor, universities, Wilder Penfield
Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Source
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