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Consciousness

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Denyse O'Leary
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September 20, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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Does a cosmopsychist believe in life after death?

Denyse O'Leary
September 20, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Bernardo Kastrup: I certainly believe in consciousness after death. I believe that our core subjectivity, that implicit, innate sense of “I”-ness, remains undifferentiated. That’s the reason you still think you are the same person you were when you were five years old even though everything about you has changed. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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September 1, 2020
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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A classic Darwinian fairy tale: How the human mind jumpstarted itself into existence

Denyse O'Leary
September 1, 2020
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Earlier, Frankish explained that Dennett accounts for consciousness as “a temporary level of organisation—a ‘virtual system’—that we create for ourselves through certain learned habits of self-stimulation.” But what are the concepts “we,” “ourselves,” and “self-” even doing in this discussion? If consciousness is an illusion, these concepts are illusions that cannot create anything. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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August 13, 2020
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Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Michael Egnor and Bernardo Kastrup: Why consciousness couldn’t just evolve from the mud

Denyse O'Leary
August 13, 2020
Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
Kastrup, a philosopher and computer scientist, does not accept a Darwinian account of the evolution of consciousness and is is also sympathetic to the basic intuitions behind the idea that there is design in nature (intelligent design theory). Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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May 3, 2020
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Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Panpsychism hits popular science mags

Denyse O'Leary
May 3, 2020
Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design, Mind
If consciousness is intrinsic to the nature of the universe, to say that consciousness evolved would be like saying that photons evolved: “The photon has the characteristics it does in order to maximize its chances of survival and passing on its genes.” Um, let’s go back to the top of the page, shall we? … Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
February 10, 2020
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Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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The deplorable word has been spoken: Consciousness cannot have evolved

Denyse O'Leary
February 10, 2020
Human evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
Wow. This will be interesting to watch. Remember when AI pioneer David Gelernter bid Darwin goodbye? So far as we know, nothing bad happened to Gelernter. If nothing awful happens to Kastrup, we might have more reasonable discussions in the future of what consciousness even is. Read More ›