Implant Lets a Disabled Woman Speak Her Thoughts

anarthria, audible speech, brain, brain implant, brainstem stroke, California, cerebral cortex, communication, Engineering, frustration, internal speech, isolation, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, paralysis, speech, stroke, Tibi Puiu, voice synthesizer, ZME Science
The key benefit of the system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to three seconds. Source
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Decline and Fall: A Vision of a Human-Free Planet

Adrian Woolfson, Albert Einstein, anti-human exceptionalism, artificial general intelligence, bioethics, Children, Christianity, computers, Denisovans, Edward Gibbon, Foundation for Economic Education, Green Revolution, Henry Gee, Homo floresiensis, Homo luzonensis, human exceptionalism, human extinction, humans, Lawrence W. Reed, natural selection, Neanderthals, Neuroscience & Mind, Science (journal), The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire
As the author of the review, Adrian Woolfson, says, the coming human eclipse originated in a sin against Darwinism. Source
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On Science and Other Subjects, the “Experts” Have Blown Up Their Own Credibility

academia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Angel Eduardo, Canada, cancel culture, Conrad Black, conspiracy theory, COVID-19, credibility, distrust, free speech, Greg Lukianoff, lab leak theory, misinformation, Neuroscience & Mind, News Media, public, residential school denialism, Rikki Schlott, The Canceling of the American Mind
Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice. Source
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Revenge of the Turtle Lady 

Big Bang, biologists, causes, conscious experience, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, explanations, free will, gravity, infinite chain, infinite regress, Intelligent Design, movement, Neuroscience & Mind, neuroscientists, Peter Corning, philosophers, physical universe, physicists, promissory note, quantum mechanics, Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, turtles, universe
You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle.  Source
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Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

A New Unified Theory of Psychology, animals, Aristotle, behavior, Culture & Ethics, Dogs, emotions, evolutionary biologists, Feelings, Gregg Henriques, human exceptionalism, humans, Marc Bekoff, Michael Egnor, moral choice, Neuroscience & Mind, prejudice, psychology, Psychology Today, Racism, reason, secular humanists, sensations, sexism, speciesism, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Wesley J. Smith
Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Source
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Science Writing Tries to Smash Human Exceptionalism

Africa, Amanda Richardson, animal behavior, antiquity, BBC News, Bronze Age, chimpanzees, Claire Asher, Côte D’Ivoire, Culture & Ethics, England, Homo sapiens, human exceptionalism, human mind, humans, Ice Age, Merlin, metal tools, monkeys, Neuroscience & Mind, New Stone Age, paleontology, polar bears, Royal BC Museum, Salisbury, Stone Age, stone tools, vultures, walruses
Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency. Source
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