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Denyse O'Leary
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December 18, 2020
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Universality of human emotion upheld by study

Denyse O'Leary
December 18, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
From UC Berkeley: "Researchers at UC Berkeley and Google used machine-learning technology known as a “deep neural network” to analyze facial expressions in some 6 million video clips uploaded to YouTube from people in 144 countries spanning North, Central and South America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East and Asia." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2020
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Michael Egnor: The mind refutes materialism in a rather straightforward way

Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Egnor: I agree that design in nature is an effective challenge to materialism. But I also believe that the mind refutes materialism in a rather straightforward way—and in much the same way that evidence of intelligent design in biology refutes materialism… Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 6, 2020
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Is the continuity of our selves just an illusion?

Denyse O'Leary
December 6, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Researchers: The ‘continuity of the self’—the capacity for self-awareness and self-recognition— remains stable whereas other components such as physical aspects, physiological processes and even attitudes, beliefs and values are more liable to change. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 29, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience

Proposed anxiety remedy: Your brain isn’t for thinking, just surviving

Denyse O'Leary
November 29, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
If the brain is really just a mechanism for deposits and withdrawals, who or what thought up the image that describes it that way? Unthinking things cannot characterize themselves. The brain is characterized, correctly or otherwise, by something that operates with but beyond the brain. For convenience, we refer to it as the mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 22, 2020
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Futurist George Gilder: Humans don’t treat physical and chemical forces or clock pulses the way computers do

Denyse O'Leary
November 22, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
As one of the fundamental dimensions of the universe, time doubtless has a regular flow. But people stuck behind a flock of Canada geese crossing a road don’t experience time in the same way as people rushing to complete a report in time for the Big Board Meeting in two hours. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 10, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Neuroscience
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Because nature is full of intelligence, the more we learn, even about a worm, the less we “know”

Denyse O'Leary
November 10, 2020
Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Neuroscience
Gilder on a researcher friend: "the more he learned about the brain of a nematode, the less he felt he knew… And the oceans of reality lay still far beyond his reach and beyond his ken." Read More ›