Why AI Can’t Replace Us Functionally

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The map is not the territory. The symbol is not the thing. And the model is not the mind. Source
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The Displacement Fallacy: Evolution’s Shell Game

Conservation of Information, David Thomas, Design Inference, displacement fallacy, Eugenie Scott, Evolution, evolutionary computing, fitness, Intelligent Design, mathematics, mount improbable, Nature (journal), Peter Robinson, pigeonhole principle, Richard Dawkins, shell game, simulation, Tesla, The Blind Watchmaker, Thomas Ray, Thomas Schneider, William Shakespeare
In a shell game, an operator places a small object, like a pea, under one of three cups and then rapidly shuffles the cups to confuse observers. Source
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Intelligent Design and the Regularity of Natural Law

airplane crashes, automobile accidents, cable car, chemical plant explosions, Christopher Columbus, defeat, disappointment, drownings, failure, Faith & Science, floods, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, human body, Intelligent Design, Isaac Newton, laws of nature, Michelangelo, mountains, nature, Panama Canal, physics, risk, tragedy, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The laws of nature work together to create a magnificent world of mountains and rivers, jungles and waterfalls, oceans and forests, animals and plants. Source
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Was Darwinian Theory Based on a False Analogy to Geology?

biology, Charles Coulton Gillispie, Charles Darwin, Charles Lyell, Dean Kenyon, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Evolution, Fred Hoyle, Geology, Isaac Newton, James Hutton, James Thomson, Mrs. Humphrey Ward, Percival Davis, Peter Bowler, Physics, Earth & Space, Principles of Geology, Robert Elsmere, Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Sandra Herbert, The City of Dreadful Night, The Origin of Species, Theory of the Earth, Thomas Huxley, William Shakespeare
Given the degree of discipleship for Sir Charles, Darwin fully expected to receive Lyell’s commendation for his labors. Source
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That Hideous Strength — C. S. Lewis’s Fantasia of Consciousness at 75

A.D. Nuttall, Abraham Lincoln, Aldous Huxley, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, Brave New World, Burke, C. P. Snow, Clarence Darrow, Culture & Ethics, Dante, Darwinian theory, David Hume, Deborah Blum, Dickens, Dr. Faustus, E. A. Burtt, Emma Goldman, Evgeny Zamyatin, F. R. Leavis, Frederick Douglass, Friedrich Nietzsche, From Darwin to Hitler, Fyodor Dostoevsky, G. E. M. Anscombe, G. K. Chesterton, Ghost Hunters, Gulag Archipelago, H. L. Mencken, J. D. Bernal, J.B.S. Haldane, Jacques Maritain, Jane Austen, John Dewey, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Leszek Kolakowski, Logical Positivists, Lord Acton, Malcolm Muggeridge, Marquis de Sade, Marxists, Max Stirner, metaphysical fiction, Michael Polanyi, Msgr. R.H. Benson, National Institute of Coordinated Experiments, Petrarch, Pierre Duhem, Richard III, Samuel Johnson, Social Darwinism, space-fiction, St. Francis of Assisi, Stanley L. Jaki, Superman, T.S. Eliot, That Hideous Strength, The Alienation of Reason, The Intellectuals and the Masses, The Man Who Was Thursday, The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science, The Odyssey, Thomas Carlyle, William Jennings Bryan, William Shakespeare, Yuval Harari
The novel is a narrative, fictional version of a philosophical anatomy of the satanic dimension and implication of much modern history from 1914 onwards. Source
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