In recent weeks, UD has been looking at the logic of being of minded intelligence, especially, embodied intelligence. One of the pivotal insights is outlined by Victor Reppert — pardon a bit of review: . . . let us suppose that brain state A [–> notice, state of a wetware, electrochemically operated computational substrate], which […]
Why scientists tend to dismiss well-supported ideas that lie outside the paradigm
The problem is that people can come to think of approved stagnation as a duty and stagnating as a virtue. If a genius comes along, with new ideas, they have lost the habit of listening with expectation.
Is a 3-D printer alive?
Clearly, we have come a long way in thinking up new ways to explore the origin of life problem.
At one time, witchcraft was considered a Halloween hoot…
Wait till you catch one of the fashionable witches also fronting the idea that we should all trust science. You can at least enjoy a sense of the ridiculous.
But how can evolution be “wrong”?
As John Gray suggests. It’s important to know whether there is a “ghost in the human machine” vs. “crossed wires we cannot entangle” because the ghost may be acting badly. But evolution can’t go “badly wrong.” Ain’t no such animal.
J. P. Moreland reasons his way to evidence for the soul
To find peace, he had to think carefully about the difference between the evolutionary materialist account of the human being and what he was actually experiencing.
Michael Egnor: The cowardice of science organizations on when life begins
“Scientists who do understand and embrace the truth about the beginning of human life are generally too cowardly to press the issue. It’s an enormous scandal.”
J. P. Moreland on when it is right to reject “science”
For example, “The presence of a band of highly trained, academically qualified scholars with a good track record for publishing in top journals or with highly regarded book publishers, and who are unified in rejecting the view held by even a vast majority of the relevant experts. “
How life shaped Earth, with a hat tip to Lynn Margulis
Grinspoon argues that life helping shape Earth means that most planets will either be lush or dead. Maybe. David, find us one that isn’t dead and we promise to get back to you soon.
Journal Science wouldn’t publish failed replication of “liberal vs conservative” brain study
The researchers who cold not replicate that “conservatives’ brains are more attuned to threats” were dismissed by the AAAS journal Science with no reasonable explanation.
First-ever natural narwhal-beluga hybrid found, has bizarre teeth
For all we know, this type of hybridization could be common. If it’s a bottom dweller, who was looking? Maybe hybridization plays a bigger role in evolution than we supposed. And then schoolbook Darwinism plays a smaller one.
“Texas Sharpshooter Fallacies” produce bad science data
Robert J. Marks, author with design theorist William Dembski and Winston Ewert of Introduction to Evolutionary Informatics talks with Gary Smith, author The AI Delusion, about how, in general, based data is produced Smith: Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy # 1 is that I’m going to prove what a great shot I am and so I stand […]
New robotic device is controlled only by thought, no brain implant
If the mind is an illusion, how can it act directly on external things, by the force of decision-making alone?
The same genes code for legs as for tentacles
The folks at Nature will be back to us when they come up with a no-design story.
A science writer considers the cost of science functioning as an inquisition
Case in point, David Bohm. In reality, just about everything except non-materialism is forgiven, despite the history.