Posts Tagged by Michael Egnor
Michael Egnor: Does your brain construct your conscious reality?
| October 13, 2018 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism |
Part I A reply to computational neuroscientist Anil Seth’s recent TED talk Anil Seth’s talk is a breathtaking compendium of fallacies on the mind and the brain. We can learn a lot from him—by understanding the errors into which he falls and the way out of those errors. Part II Does your brain construct your conscious […]
Michael Egnor: Apes can be generous. Are they just like humans then?
| September 26, 2018 | Posted by News under Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Reading the claims for ape generosity in The New York Times, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor offers a clarification: There is a fallacy about the human mind that regularly appears in research on animal behavior, and this fallacy is related to the pervasive misunderstanding about machine “intelligence.” It is a misunderstanding about the most basic characteristic of […]
Jeffrey Shallit takes on Mike Egnor: Machines really CAN learn!
| September 25, 2018 | Posted by News under Artificial Intelligence, Intelligent Design, Mind |
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor tells us that computer engineer Jeffrey Shallit, known for attacking ID, has responded to his recent parable explaining why machines can’t learn. According to Shallit, a computer is not just a machine, but something quite special: Computer scientist Jeffrey Shallit takes issue with my parable (September 8, 2018) about “machine learning.” The […]
Is Darwinism “completely worthless to science”?
| August 14, 2018 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Intelligent Design |
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor doesn’t mince words: I despise Darwinism. It is, in my view, an utterly worthless scientific concept promulgated by a third-rate barnacle collector and hypochondriac to justify functional, if not explicit, atheism. Richard Dawkins got it right: Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. A low bar, admittedly, but “natural […]
Neurosurgeon: We are more different from apes than apes are from viruses
| September 22, 2016 | Posted by News under Human evolution, language |
From neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, reflecting on Tom Wolfe’s new The Kingdom of Speech at Evolution News & Views: I have argued before that the human mind is qualitatively different from the animal mind. The human mind has immaterial abilities — the intellect’s ability to grasp abstract universal concepts divorced from any particular thing — and […]
