16Jul 2026 by Post

Design Concepts: Interoception Is a Match for Proprioception

Andrew McDiarmid, David Coppedge, eBioMedicine, Fiona MacDonald, health, human body, ID The Future, information, Intelligent Design, interoception, Medicine, mental health, Nils Kroemer, proprioception, Science and Culture Today, ScienceAlert, self-monitoring, Senses, sixth sense, The Conversation, University of Tübingen, Well-being
The take-home point is surely this: Our bodies have all sorts of ways of giving us information that do not run through our senses. Source
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14Jun 2023 by Post

All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

autonomous weapons, Buying God, Capitalism’s Toxic Assumptions, China, consciousness, David J. Gunkel, emotions, Eve Poole, hard problem of consciousness, human beings, ineffability, Intelligent Design, junk code, Leadersmithing, machines, Neuroscience & Mind, Northern Illinois University, personhood, Robot Souls, robots, Russia, Ryota Kanai, sixth sense, soul, Taylor & Francis, TechXplore, The Economist
In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Source
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11Jun 2022 by Post

Lateral Line: A “Sixth Sense” for Fish (And Other Cool Tricks)

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What’s remarkable is that this organ constitutes an analog-to-digital converter, as pressure waves (analog) are converted to electrical signals. Source
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