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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 17, 2019
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Human evolution
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Researchers: Human face evolved to enhance social expression

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April 17, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Okay, but social expression is only important if one has something to communicate. How the “something to communicate” came to exist is the tricky part. That’s when the nonsense starts up. And when did the “something to communicate” start to happen? What if evidence of abstract reasoning predates the noted facial changes by tens of thousands of millennia? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 16, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
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Simpson’s Paradox: Numbers are stranger than we think

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April 16, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Mind
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One outcome of Simpson’s Paradox is that machines cannot replace statisticians in analysing results. A great deal depends on interpretation, as Marks shows. “Clustering remains largely an art.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 15, 2019
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Intelligent Design
language
Mind
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At Inference Review: Human language is much more than a system of signals

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April 15, 2019
Intelligent Design, language, Mind
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University of maryland linguist: The formal structures of linguistics and neurophysiology are disjoint, a point emphasized by Poeppel and David Embick in a widely cited study. There is an incommensurability between theories of the brain and theories of the mind… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 14, 2019
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Artificial Intelligence
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Mind
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Artificial intelligence is not dangerous. Only natural intelligence is dangerous

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April 14, 2019
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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There is a huge media pundit industry anxious to persuade us that machines will come to think like people when the actual concern should be quite the opposite… people will come to think like machines and won't see through their pretensions. See, for example, A Short Argument Against the Materialist Account of the Mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 14, 2019
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Intelligent Design
Mind
Physics
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Video: How Quantum Mechanics and Consciousness Correlate

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April 14, 2019
Intelligent Design, Mind, Physics
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From Philip Cunningham: Notes: In this present video I would like to further refine and expand on the argument that I made in the “Albert Einstein vs. Quantum Mechanics and His Own Mind” video with more recent experimental evidence from quantum mechanics. and to thus further strengthen the case that the present experimental evidence that we now have from quantum mechanics strongly supports a Mind First and/or a Theistic view of reality, and even, when combined with other scientific evidences that we now have, strongly supports the Christian view of reality in particular. In order to accomplish this task I must first define some properties of immaterial mind which are irreconcilable with the reductive materialistic view of mind that Darwinists Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
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April 1, 2019
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Researchers: Complex tools don’t show ancient humans were smart

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April 1, 2019
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Experience from recorded history is clearly of humans getting just such ideas as the authors claim to be impossible in remote antiquity — and to make their point, they use modern students! Most likely, the felt need to identify a subhuman state of mind lies behind such a claim. Unlike the claim that the Neanderthals never produced art, this one can’t just be exploded. It can never be demonstrated either but in the present environment, that doesn’t matter. If the claim is made enough times, it will become orthodoxy. Read More ›