Open season on Jesse Singal for noticing? Or … alternatively … how about this, Little Rays of Sunshine — University of Washington Chapter: Hereafter, we will reasonably assume that anything you say on the topic stands a good chance of being — in whole or in part — a falsehood. And what should we do with a fish when only some of it stinks?
Naturalism
At Mind Matters News: Panpsychism: If computers can have minds, why can’t the Sun?
If the Hard AI people are right, animism — the belief that inanimate objects (whether the Sun or a computer) can have minds — has been unjustly dismissed.
The Intelligent Design Audiopaper Project
I was thinking recently, about how many audiobooks are consumed by people these days. I would guess that the main reason behind this consumption is convenience. Many people just don’t have the time, or don’t create the time, to really sit down and get their head in a book. But I understand that for many, Read More…
Life from a rock?
The level of information found within a seed can only come from a mind so far above our own that to ascribe it to God is not a statement of religion, but of logic.
Beauty and Naturalism
Physicist Eric Hedin: “The failure to make significant progress on the standard model of particle physics may stem from a misguided concept of beauty.”
At Mind Matters News: Can we eliminate the idea of function from the study of life?
The term “function” in life forms is linked historically with the idea that life forms show evidence of design. Therefore, philosopher Emmanuel Ratti and molecular biologist Pierre-Luc Germain argue, biologists shouldn’t use it … The problem with their position is not that it is opposed to intelligent design theory but that it is in conflict with the self-evident nature of life forms.
The Woke without their makeup …
After the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Roe (abortion on demand everywhere) unconstitutional, the elite Woke have been rampaging generally – but against one judge in particular. Mr. Justice Clarence Thomas is black and, wouldn’t you know …
What would really happen if an infinite number of monkeys typed for an infinity…
Not what Darwin’s bulldog Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) thought: The works of Shakespeare…
Who but C.S. Lewis to unmask the pretensions of SETI…
C. .S. Lewis: The Supernatural is not remote and abstruse: it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing.”
At Mind Matters News: Imaging studies fail badly at linking brain and behavior
Aha! news stories about what brain imaging reveals about human behavior are probably based on studies whose findings would not be confirmed by further research. Such studies, often of psychiatric conditions, were the Next Step for brain imaging: showing that human behavior is based on simple, identifiable brain states.
We’re not your lab rats any more: Convoy update IV
As of March 13, 2022, this page will not be updated. The issues re COVID-19 have now moved to the stage where only serious enquiries into the costly Crazy will be any use. Meanwhile, we leave you with this thought: Now, as we move forward (or not), a final message: Maybe you didn’t care when Read More…
We’re not your lab rats any more: Convoy update III
So much news worldwide now. I’ll just keep adding to it, putting new items at the top so you can keep checking back. I will try to group them loosely by topic where possible. This post is stickied for now so news news added on other topics is below this post.
At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientists: The Hard Problem of consciousness isn’t so hard!
If consciousness remains unexplained by materialist theories, we are entitled to conclude, at least provisionally, that it is not a material phenomenon.
Darwinian evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne is getting mugged by reality
All: Unplug the TV. Those people can no longer afford to be friends of truth in any meaningful sense. That includes anything to do with evolution controversies.
Why people don’t trust science any more
As we enter the new year, full of cranks, quacks, and crackpots with huge power, here is a powerful statement on why people don’t trust Big Science any more (and shouldn’t)