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Eric Holloway

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 6, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
Neuroscience
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Eric Holloway: Can computer neural networks learn better than human neurons?

Denyse O'Leary
August 6, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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Takehome: Humans can do things that AI cannot do, as we saw earlier, but those abilities are not due to the superior learning ability of a human neuron. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 30, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
mind and brain
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Eric Holloway: Artificial neural networks can show that the mind isn’t the brain

Denyse O'Leary
July 30, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind, mind and brain
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Holloway: : The human mind can do tasks that an artificial neural network (ANN) cannot. Because the brain works like an ANN, the mind cannot just be what the brain does. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 12, 2022
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Cosmology
Information
Intelligent Design
Physics
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At Mind Matters News: Does information have mass? An experimental physicist weighs in

Denyse O'Leary
April 12, 2022
Cosmology, Information, Intelligent Design, Physics
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Rob Sheldon notes that the more real-world information we have, the less the bits weigh until, at very large amounts of information, they weigh almost nothing. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
April 11, 2022
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Information
Intelligent Design
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Eric Holloway: Does information weigh something after all? What if it does?

Denyse O'Leary
April 11, 2022
Information, Intelligent Design
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Holloway: If [Melvin] Vopson is correct we now have a mystery because his theory is in tension with the conservation of energy. The only solution is that the system is not closed. So where is the opening in the system? If the system is physically closed, then the influx of information must come from outside the physical realm. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 2, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Eric Holloway asks, Is AlphaZero Actually Superior to the Human Mind?

Denyse O'Leary
March 2, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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What is actually remarkable is the sheer amount of processing power needed to bring computers up to the level of even the most basic human player! This indicates the human mind is doing something totally different and extraordinarily more efficient than the best AI algorithms we have today. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 23, 2022
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Chalmers and Penrose clash over “conscious computers”

Denyse O'Leary
January 23, 2022
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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Holloway: There are hard, practical reasons why computers cannot understand concepts like “infinity” and “truth” and therefore cannot be conscious. Read More ›
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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
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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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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
November 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Philosophy
Science
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Eric Holloway at Mind Matters News: Can the “physical world” be wholly physical? Physical at all?

Denyse O'Leary
November 19, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Philosophy, Science
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The Epicurean philosophy of pure physicalism is attractive to many but the logic of it, followed consistently, refutes itself. Read More ›
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Author
Denyse O'Leary
Date
September 27, 2021
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Artificial Intelligence
Intelligent Design
Mind
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Eric Holloway: Move Over Turing and Lovelace – We Need a Terminator Test

Denyse O'Leary
September 27, 2021
Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind
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The Turing test, and the Lovelace test, are attempts to determine if computers can show human-like intelligence. Holloway asks, what happens if researchers succeed in creating lifelike machines? in the sense of “wanting” things? "If we create an all-powerful artificial intelligence, we cannot assume it will be friendly. Thus, we need a Terminator test." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 31, 2021
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Intelligent Design
Naturalism
Science
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Eric Holloway: Why is randomness a good model, but not a good explanation?

Denyse O'Leary
August 31, 2021
Intelligent Design, Naturalism, Science
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After all, he argues, random processes are used all the time to model things in science: When we test a sequence of numbers for randomness, we are essentially testing how easy it is to predict the sequence of numbers. One of the simplest tests is to measure how frequently heads and tails occur during a series of coin flips. If the distribution is heavily skewed one way or the other after a large number of flips, then we can be pretty certain the coin is not fair. We cannot be absolutely certain, since there is always a small probability for a really long run of heads, but as the run lengthens, the probability of achieving the run with a fair Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
August 10, 2021
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Intelligent Design
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At Mind Matters News: Randomness is not a scientific explanation

Denyse O'Leary
August 10, 2021
Intelligent Design
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Eric Holloway: ... randomness is unprovable, which was proven by three different computer scientists: Ray Solomonoff, Andrey Kolmogorov and Gregory Chaitin. The only thing we can know is that something is not random. Hence, we can never know that something originated from randomness. Read More ›