In this Part 3, physicalist arguments are debunked.
Naturalism
One of Boghossian’s hoaxers started the Woke on the 2 plus 2 equals five drive?
Meanwhile, Lindsay has a blog keeping track of Woke folk and other unfunny crazies, where he says he himself might have started off the 2 + 2 = 5 crazy, intending only to explain to someone how the Woke think.
Are animals just as smart as people, but we are unfair to them?
Michael Egnor looks at such claims. Including apes as co-authors on a primatology research paper created quite a stir—among humans.
Did Dan Brown’s hero stumble onto God?
Robert J. Marks and Oxford mathematician John Lennox discuss that in connection with Lennox’s new book, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (2020).
The world would be better if we all died?
But for whom?: Ricky Gervais thinks bees are more important than humans. The 59-year-old comedian has admitted he believes the world would actually be a “better place” if the human species were to be completely wiped out. Ricky said: “We are part of nature – we are not above it – we are not in Read More…
A philosopher explains how you can know for sure that you are not a sim
As philosopher Richard Johns explains, sims do not understand simhood: How can Alice determine whether the strange little man in her apartment who claims to be her Programmer is telling the truth? Recently, philosopher Richard Johns (left), whose work was profiled here at Mind Matters News in “A philosopher explains why thinking matter is impossible,” Read More…
Two reasons why humans have souls are proposed
Maybe wondering about whether we have a soul is a bit like wondering whether we should act more mature in difficult situations.
At Mind Matters News: Brain activity can’t reveal our minds, it turns out
Our minds read things but it doesn’t follow that we can read our minds. We can’t even read brains. Which is not the same thing.
Darwinians understand cancer: It is caused by “cheating” cells
Why is it that naturalism ends up sounding so much like folklore? Cells “cheat,” which means they can think like people, right? Oh wait. The mind is an illusion … but anyway, cells “think”? Sure. That’ll work.
Michael Egnor: Materialism is easily falsifiable by science
Egnor: Cosmological singularities, such as black holes and the singularity from which our universe arose, are wholly supernatural. That is, they are undefined in any materialist/naturalist framework.
Galileo doesn’t deserve to be the victim of zombie history
But it’s really all that a wornout establishment can provide.
Are there really researchers out there who spend 20% of their time refuting ID?
Look, it’s true that the universe shows evidence of intelligent design but nobody is trying to interfere with those researchers just plodding about their job. They’re freaking themselves out to no purpose.
AI replacing humans is consistent with Dawkins’s naturalist philosophy
Which is where the wheels come off.
Jonathan Bartlett on Elon Musk’s myths of the mind
Bartlett: What I found most interesting about the conversation, however, is not the technology itself but the (secular) mythology embedded in Musk’s lengthy descriptions of what he thinks his device can do…
Michael Egnor: Physicist Sean Carroll rejects logic when he rejects free will
This is not an excellent time to be a materialist. Materialism is losing its Cool. It’s not even making sense.