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27Jan 2023 by Post

Dear Transhumanists: Do You Really Want to Live Forever?

Altos Labs, Andrew Steele, antibiotics, Auguste Meyrat, Culture & Ethics, death, disabilities, disease, From Here to Eternity, Futurism, immortality, injury, Jeff Bezos, longevity, Maggie Harrison, Medicine, pagans, Palo Alto, Randall Smith, science, Technology, transcendence, transhumanists

A life of meaning is what we truly need, and perhaps what we most deeply desire. Source

12Jan 2023 by Post

Is the End of Science Near?

bureaucracy, Carlson School of Management, citation data, Elon Musk, Evolution, Future Perfect, John Horgan, Kelsey Piper, NASA, National Academy of Science, Nature (journal), Neuroscience & Mind, PubMed, Research, Rob Sheldon, science, Scientific American, Space Physics, Technology, The Edge, The End of Science, Tibi Puiu, University of Minnesota, Vox

A study in the premier science journal notes the long term falling off of truly original findings, as opposed to endless citations of others’ findings. Source

01Nov 2022 by Post

Human Origins: All in the Family

art, Australopithecines, burial, chain mail, Creativity, Culture, Donald Johanson, Erik Trinkaus, footprints, fossil record, Fossils and Human Evolution (series), Francesco d’Errico, habilines, Homo erectus, Homo neanderthalensis, Homo sapiens, Human Origins, Nature (journal), Neanderthals, Oxford University Press, paintings, paleoanthropologists, paleontology, Siegrid Hartwig-Scherer, Stephen Molnar, symbolic thought, Technology, total energy expenditure, University of Bordeaux, Washington University

If a Neanderthal walked down the street, appropriately dressed, you probably wouldn’t notice. Source

24Oct 2022 by Post

Reeves: A Rising Star Describes a Biological Revolution

bacteria, biochemistry, biology, computer scientist, emergent properties, Emily Reeves, engineers, Evolution, foresight, hierarchical integration, integration, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Jim Esch, materialism, purpose, Reductionism, science, signaling networks, silicon, Systems Biology, Technology

“Engineers more easily recognize impressive design because they have actually tied to build stuff.” Source

23Sep 2022 by Post

New from Science Uprising — Artificial Intelligence, Creativity, and the Human Difference

algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, artists, Baylor University, computers, Creativity, Darwinism, Discovery Institute, Elon Musk, humanity, Jay Richards, John Lennox, kitsch, materialism, media, Neuroscience & Mind, propaganda, Robert J. Marks, science, Science Uprising, Selmer Bringsjord, spiritual reality, Stephen Hawking, Technology, totalitarianism, Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence

Creativity, not mere copying or following commands, entails thinking “outside the box.” That’s how it can surprise us with genuine novelty. Source

12Jul 2022 by Post

Hyping Artificial Intelligence with Seductive Optics and the Frankenstein Complex

Artificial Intelligence, Boris Karloff, Buddhist monks, Diane Ackerman, eye contact, Frankenstein, Frankenstein Complex, Goddess of Mercy, Kannon, Mary Shelley, Mindar, Neuroscience & Mind, News Media, packaging, regression curve, robots, seductive optics, seductive semantics, Sophia the Robot, Technology, Thomas Edison, uncanny valley, Victor Frankenstein, YouTube videos

Some of the panicky AI-will-take-over-the-world talk grows out of seductive optics — that is, the AI packaging. Source

22Jun 2022 by Post

From Darwinists, a Shift in Tone on Nanomachines

Adam Watkins, bacterial flagellum, BioEssays, biology, Bruce Alberts, Darwinian pathways, Darwinism, David Hume, Dubai, E. coli, Evolution, flagellar filaments, From Darwinists, Guide to Reading Jason Rosenhouse (series), Harvard University, Howard Berg, Intelligent Design, Jason Rosenhouse, magnetotactic bacteria, molehills, moles, mountains, nanomachines, National Academy of Sciences, Rube Goldberg device, Stone Age, Technology

The shift in tone from then to now is remarkable. What happened to the awe these systems used to inspire? Source

31May 2022 by Post

Denton: The Miracle of Man Rests on a Primal Blueprint

bipeds, Eric Anderson, fine-tuning, fire, fitness, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Marcos Eberlin, Michael Denton, Physics, Earth & Space, Podcast, primal blueprint, Privileged Species, science, Technology, The Miracle of Man

It’s a long list of things, and indeed, a long list of interdependent ensembles of prior fitness. Source

24May 2022 by Post

2022 YouTube Film Festival: Fire-Maker

airplanes, biology, civilization, computers, earth, fire, human body, Human Origins, humans, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Michael Denton, Technology

Think of it: from computers to airplanes to life-giving medicines, the technological marvels of our world were made possible by this human use of fire. Source

19May 2022 by Post

Denton: Return of the Man Hypothesis

anthropocentrism, biology, bipeds, Charles Darwin, Chemistry, cosmos, Eric Anderson, Evolution, fine-tuning, fire, ID The Future, Intelligent Design, Michael Denton, Middle Ages, natural selection, Physics, Earth & Space, physiology, Podcast, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, Technology, The Miracle of Man

Scientific discoveries have revitalized the outlook that placed man at the center of the cosmos, not in a physical but in a metaphysical sense. Source

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