A machine mind didn’t “just evolve” in this experiment; it was programmed in — even if its output was a surprise. The same is likely true of the human mind.
Human evolution
At Eurekalert: Connectivity of language areas unique in the human brain
“Neuroscientists have gained new insight into how our brain evolved into a language-ready brain. Compared to chimpanzee brains, the pattern of connections of language areas in our brain has expanded more than previously thought. “
Michael Egnor: Is consciousness the sort of thing that could have evolved?
Material processes cannot, for example, account for the power to grasp infinity or perfection — which are not material ideas.
At Live Science: Why can’t we drink saltwater?
Why did humans — and nearly all other land animals, for that matter —evolve to drink freshwater when saltwater is so much more plentiful?
At Sci-News: Early Humans were Present in Southeast Britain 620,000 Years Ago
Researchers: The archaeological site of Fordwich in northeast Kent, England, reveals the presence of Acheulean hominins — possibly Homo erectus or Homo heidelbergensis — in what is now southeast Britain between 620,000 and 560,000 years ago.
What would Catholic philosopher Thomas Aquinas say about Adam and Eve and paleontology?
Thomas Aquinas (1225– 1274) was instrumental in organizing Christian theology along Aristotelian lines. Here, a priest who is familiar with his thought, offers some comments.
At Mind Matters News: Transhumanism: Human, computer, animal — all just a choice now…
Wesley Smith talks with Dr. Elaina George about the new secular religion of Transhumanism or H+ — immortality without tears for atheists — if it’s even possible.
Jonathan Wells asks, Is the human shoulder badly designed?
Personal misfortune taught him otherwise.
Denton’s prior fitness argument: Everything seems to have come together to produce humans
But didn’t Freeman Dyson (1923–2020) say, “The more I examine the universe and the details of its architecture, the more evidence I find that the universe in some sense must have known we were coming.” The idea isn’t new; there’s just much more evidence for it.
Claim: Human cognitive abilities a consequence of walking upright
The explanation sounds rather contrived and, curiously, makes “evolution” sound like a theistic evolutionist’s God.
New sleep molecule: Apparently, the machinery of sleep is very complex
Researcher: Our discovery shows just how complex the machinery of sleep is.
Here’s a curious question: What did Neanderthals evolve from?
Some of us would like to know why, apart from professional jealousies and corruption, there is even an issue about differences between Neanderthals and the rest of us.
Another species of “hominin” still alive?
So no one has ever found one of them but we are supposed to take this seriously? Untraceable hominins. Elves, fairies, the Abominable Snowman? So this is all “science” now?
Researchers: Tool patterns show that Neanderthals were declining before Homo sapiens arrived
Researchers: “Based on this evidence, the authors suggest that older Iberian Neandertal populations disappeared, taking their tool styles with them, and were replaced by different Neandertal groups using Châtelperronian tools, likely migrating from France, and these populations were in turn replaced by Homo sapiens.”
New genealogical network dates humanity back 100,000 years
One curious find, if it holds up, is that humans were in the Americas much earlier than thought. There should now be renewed interest in finding very early tools and fossils in North America.