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Consciousness

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
December 28, 2021
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Are the brain cells in a dish that learned Pong conscious?

Denyse O'Leary
December 28, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design
Eric Holloway: A couple other interesting results from the research. First, human-derived organoids always outperform mouse-derived organoids in terms of volley length. Second, even without negative feedback, when the paddle missed the pong ball, the organoids still learn to increase volley length. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 6, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: The brain stem, not the prefrontal cortex, may be the seat of consciousness

Denyse O'Leary
November 6, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Neuropsychologist Mark Solms: a lot of evidence, suggests that the source of consciousness in the brain is in fact in the brain stem, which is a much more ancient, much more primitive structure that we share, not only with all other primates and all other mammals, but in fact, with all vertebrates. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 2, 2021
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Animal minds, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientist: Nervous systems alone do not cause consciousness

Denyse O'Leary
November 2, 2021
Animal minds, Cell biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
One-celled intelligence aside, it’s unclear how Antonio Damasio’s ladder of consciousness, built on self-balancing and death avoidance, gets us the human mind. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 15, 2021
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Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: GWT: A leading consciousness theory depends on information theory

Denyse O'Leary
October 15, 2021
Informatics, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
If information flow in the brain is “largely unconstrained” by anatomical wiring, it’s easy to understand why we sense that we have “minds” apart from our brains. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 30, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Did minimal consciousness drive the Cambrian Explosion?

Denyse O'Leary
September 30, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind
Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Where their approach differs from many is that they do not try to identify a mechanism of consciousness. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 20, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Defending the mind’s reality at a materialist cocktail party

Denyse O'Leary
August 20, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
What to say when you find yourself among self-assured elite sloganeers. The actual history of neuroscience in the last century has not been kind to materialist assertions and assumptions. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 14, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Is panpsychism replacing materialism?

Denyse O'Leary
July 14, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Panpsychism, in the form of Integrated Information Theory (IIT), is a much more serious competitor to dualism and idealism than materialism could hope to be. Panpsychists are not trying to claim that consciousness is merely an illusion. They may be wrong but they aren't ridiculous. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 10, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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At Scientific American: Why we live in a simulation

Denyse O'Leary
April 10, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Culture, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
This is likely intended as a spoof: "There is nothing in philosophy or science, no postulates, theories or laws, that would predict the emergence of this experience we call consciousness. Natural laws do not call for its existence, and it certainly does not seem to offer us any evolutionary advantages." But it happens to be true. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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April 4, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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Is science drifting from simple materialism to panpsychism?

Denyse O'Leary
April 4, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
It seems to have come down to a choice between “nothing is conscious” and “everything is conscious.” But materialism becomes incoherent when it requires us to believe that we only imagine we are conscious — that's a basic error in logic. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 15, 2021
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Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Nautilus: A bioelectric theory of consciousness

Denyse O'Leary
March 15, 2021
Cell biology, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
The hypothesis that consciousness is a function of bioelectric fields includes the notion that our individual cells are conscious. Levin and Dennett are willing to think of parts of the body as agents too. But from what we can tell, whole persons are not agents in Dennett's view. Read More ›