Category: Information
Henry Kissinger: The End of the Enlightenment dawns, due to artificial intelligence
| May 16, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Information, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Readers may remember Henry Kissinger, a 70s-era American diplomat (“U.S. secretary of state under Richard Nixon, winning the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize for the Vietnam War accords”). From Kissinger at The Atlantic: How the Enlightenment Ends: Philosophically, intellectually—in every way—human society is unprepared for the rise of artificial intelligence. As the internet and increased computing […]
Quantum entanglement nears visibility
| April 26, 2018 | Posted by News under Information, Intelligent Design, Physics |
From Emily Conover at Science News: Quantum entanglement has left the realm of the utterly minuscule, and crossed over to the just plain small. Two teams of researchers report that they have generated ethereal quantum linkages, or entanglement, between pairs of jiggling objects visible with a magnifying glass or even the naked eye — if […]
What makes citing problems with Darwinism heresy?
| April 17, 2018 | Posted by News under Evolution, Information, Intelligent Design |
From Cornelius Hunter at ENST: Who is the author of the following statement? In contrast [to trait loss], the gain of genetically complex traits appears harder, in that it requires the deployment of multiple gene products in a coordinated spatial and temporal manner. Obviously, this is unlikely to happen in a single step, because it […]
RNA molecules recognize each other
| April 13, 2018 | Posted by News under Cell biology, Information, Intelligent Design |
From ScienceDaily: In the past decade, scientists have watched protein and RNA molecules condensing into droplets, or membrane-free condensates, in many kinds of cells, from bacterial to human. They have also noted that the same proteins that form liquid droplets in healthy cells can “solidfy” in the context of disease, such as neurodegenerative disorders. But […]
Law of Conservation of Information vs Darwinism
| April 10, 2018 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Information, Intelligent Design |
From Andrew Jones at ENST: One of the most fundamental and useful ideas that has come out of the intelligent design movement is the insight expressed by Bill Dembski as the Law of Conservation of Information. Put simply, the idea is that information does not appear out of nowhere, but can always be traced to […]
The memtransistor as brainlike computing – with what outcome?
| February 28, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience |
From ScienceDaily: In recent years, researchers have searched for ways to make computers more neuromorphic, or brain-like, in order to perform increasingly complicated tasks with high efficiency. Now Hersam, a Walter P. Murphy Professor of Materials Science and Engineering in Northwestern’s McCormick School of Engineering, and his team are bringing the world closer to realizing […]
New book: Life is “a flowing stream” and “order does not entail design”
| February 13, 2018 | Posted by News under Complex Specified Information, Darwinism, Design inference, Evolution, Information, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
From Oxford University Press, Everything Flows: Towards a Processual Philosophy of Biology, edited by Daniel J. Nicholson and John Dupre, – A radical new conception of biology and the metaphysics of the living world – Offers a new kind of process philosophy with a naturalistic grounding – The Introduction provides a state-of-the-art survey to orient […]
The weirdness of entangled time
| February 9, 2018 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics |
From Elise Crull at Aeon: The problem is that entanglement violates how the world ought to work. Information can’t travel faster than the speed of light, for one. But in a 1935 paper, Einstein and his co-authors showed how entanglement leads to what’s now called quantum nonlocality, the eerie link that appears to exist between […]
The Edge, a science thinksite, asks “The Last Question”
| February 7, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Computing, AI, Cybernetics and Mechatronics, Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience |
as in “your last question, the question for which you will be remembered.” Some interesting answers (in the form of questions) emerge: Can we program a computer to find a 10,000-bit string that encodes more actionable wisdom than any human has ever expressed? – Scott Aronson Are complex biological neural systems fundamentally unpredictable? – Anthony […]
Origin of life challenge: The information challenge is the only one that counts
| December 24, 2017 | Posted by News under Information, Origin Of Life |
From Brian Miller at Evolution News & Views: The first issue relates to the comparison of the sequencing of amino acids in proteins to the letters in a sentence. This analogy is generally disliked by design critics since it so clearly reveals the powerful evidence for intelligence from the information contained in life. It also […]
Can the rot of naturalism be stopped? Relating information to matter and energy might help
| December 21, 2017 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Information, Intelligent Design, Naturalism |
From O’Leary for News at Evolution News & Views: Philosopher of consciousness John Searle identified this underlying theme of post-modernism in Mind, Language and Society: Philosophy in the Real World (2008): “[I]t satisfies a basic urge to power. It just seems too disgusting, somehow, that we should have to be at the mercy of the […]
Plant studies: Intelligence does not require a brain or nervous system
| December 16, 2017 | Posted by News under Animal minds, Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Minds, Plants |
From philosopher Laura Ruggles at Aeon: What does it even mean to say that a mallow can learn and remember the location of the sunrise? The idea that plants can behave intelligently, let alone learn or form memories, was a fringe notion until quite recently. Memories are thought to be so fundamentally cognitive that some […]
Guest Post — Template-Assisted Ligation: A New OOL Model
| December 15, 2017 | Posted by kairosfocus under biosemiotics, Cell biology, Chemistry, Food for thought, Functionally Specified Complex Information & Organization, ID Foundations, Information, Origin Of Life, Self-Org. Theory |
Dr E. Selensky occasionally requests that UD posts an article on his behalf. What follows is his latest: ______________ Arguably, the RNA world model is excessively complex: it operates too complex structures and involves too complex interactions. The origin of life, some researchers believe, must have been simpler.In an attempt to close the gap between […]
What is “information”?
Information, of course, is notoriously a concept that has many senses of meaning. As it is central to the design inference, let us look (again) at defining it. We can dispose of one sense right off, Shannon was not directly interested in information but in information-carrying capacity; that is why his metric will peak for […]
Redditors do not read articles they vote on
| November 30, 2017 | Posted by News under Culture, Information, Intelligent Design |
Reddit. From Michael Byrne via Motherboard at Slashdot: “, some 73 percent of posts on Reddit are voted on by users that haven’t actually clicked through to view the content being rated.” Brilliant futures await them as Wikipedia editors, provided they are living on food stamps in Mom’s basement. New media help us understand what […]
Rob Sheldon: Supersymmetry is dead but its ghost still haunts particle physics
| November 28, 2017 | Posted by News under Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics |
A reluctant physics student wrote to our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon for help recently. What, he asks, is this paper all about: — Journal of High Energy Physics May 2017, 2017:136 Supersymmetric many-body systems from partial symmetries — integrability, localization and scrambling Authors Pramod Padmanabhan, Soo-Jong Rey, Daniel Teixeira, Diego Trancanelli Email author Open […]
Twisted light can carry arbitrarily large amounts of information – a find friendly to theism?
| November 17, 2017 | Posted by News under Information, Intelligent Design, Physics |
Philip Cunningham draws our attention to “New records set up with “Screws of Light””: In principle, twisted light can carry an arbitrary large amount of information per photon. This is in contrast to the polarization of light, which is limited to one bit per photon. For example, data rates of up to 100 terabits per […]
What is the difference between classical and quantum information?
| November 16, 2017 | Posted by News under Information, Intelligent Design |
From our physics color commentator Rob Sheldon: — a) Classical information is local. It is like beans in a bag, one, say, for each bushel of wheat. They are not connected to each other, each is independent of the other. b) Quantum information is non-local. It depends on the orientation of the other beans. It […]
Can information theory help us understand consciousness?
| November 1, 2017 | Posted by News under Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism |
From Gregory Chaitin at UFRJ: In Chapter 8 of his 1996 Oxford University Press masterpiece The Conscious Mind, David Chalmers speculates on using information theory as the basis for a fundamental theory of consciousness. Building on his work, we attempt to flesh out an updated version of the Chalmers proposal by taking into account more […]
Wikipedians diminish another high achiever sympathetic to ID
| October 23, 2017 | Posted by News under Culture, Information, Intelligent Design, Media |
From David Klinghoffer at Evolution News & Views: We reported here the other day that distinguished German paleontologist Günter Bechly was erased by Wikipedia. The editors, claiming it had nothing to do with his having come out for intelligent design, explained that they decided he wasn’t “notable” enough. Now along comes another ID proponent, Walter […]
