Category: Mind
Warning 50 years on: The machine has no brain; use your own
| June 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Intelligent Design, Mind, News |
In fact, the machine needs no genuine intelligence because it is automating the work of a human being who has both intelligence and purpose. more
Another myth shattered: Smart people are MORE vulnerable to thinking errors, not less
| June 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
“Although we assume that intelligence is a buffer against bias … it can actually be a subtle curse.” more
Are mind and brain really software and hardware?
| June 6, 2012 | Posted by News under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Mind, News |
Or is that an analogy that just doesn’t really work? more
Another reason why the human mind is not like a computer …
| June 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Mind, News |
“Just when every successive wave of peers and rivals thinks they have got his number, Anand sees that one, all important, absolute move.” more
Entertaining theories about human intelligence – “wired to persuade”
| May 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Mind, News |
“Prove that Dan Jones is not manipulating you but is logically speaking truth by using reason. Use only Darwinian presuppositions.” more
There is something wrong with the popular idea of what brain scans can tell us if …
| May 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
… they are getting signals from dead fish. more
Oxytocin, love drug, turns out not to be
| May 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
The “love hormone”, it turns out, has a dark side, one that is only just starting to come to light. more
Deprogramming “neuro”politics in an election year
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
“Political beliefs are hugely complex, and can change rapidly and quickly over time.” more
We must pretend there is free will so as to go on using the language of ethics?
| May 13, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
Odds are, given that they don’t really believe in free will, after a while they won’t use the language of ethics and won’t really miss it. more
Consciousness: Neuroscientist David Eagleman sort of starts to get the picture
| April 24, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
Given that all the nonsense attempts to explain consciousness in a materialist way, it’s nice to hear that someone we didn’t expect to is blundering in the right direction. more
Is the search for the origin of human intelligence really a discipline in science?
| April 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Human evolution, Mind, News |
There doesn’t seem to be any discipline in the discipline. And if there were any progress, how would we know? more
Materialist neuroscientist admits that his stance is a “leap of faith”
| April 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
“I don’t actually believe the radio metaphor of the brain, but I think something like it could account for all of our findings.” more
A materialist account of the human mind that allows for free will?
| April 15, 2012 | Posted by News under Darwinism, Mind, News, Philosophy |
Bok offers a good, stirring answer but, surely, he is whistling in the dark? more
How’s that materialist project going again?
| March 22, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Darwinism, Mind, News |
The creative biologists are not even Darwinists any more. The Darwinists are the ones rehashing the trash on Darwin’s monster of a garbage scow. more
No one should pay a cent for a theory of consciousness, let alone a review of it
| March 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, News |
If Koch had solved any problems about consciousness, we would have heard about it by now. more
New York Times piece: “There’s not a grain of real science in it that’s worth putting on the front page”
| March 20, 2012 | Posted by News under Genetics, Mind, Neuroscience, News |
… “that irritating combination of sophomoric facetiousness and pious credulity that is unique to science journalism” more
Trying to make a machine into a human isn’t really new, it turns out
| February 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Mind, News |
“… paradoxically enough, this passion had less to do with philosophy than with blasphemy, hypochondria, and a cheerful and Frankensteinian hubris.” more
Memo from materialists: Science is over. Oh and, by the way, consciousness doesn’t matter
| February 25, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience |
“… an incremental adaptation based on earlier forms of intelligence that no one would regard as faintly omniscient.” more
Q: Is Logic simply a matter of axioms at play in an abstract logical world unconnected to external reality? A: Nope
| February 22, 2012 | Posted by kairosfocus under Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy, Science, worldview issues and society |
As we continue to look at the issue of first principles of right reason, one of the key steps being taken by critics of the Law of Non-Contradiction [LNC] is to assert that we are here dealing with axioms unconnected to the real world, at least in relevant cases. First, let us clip a recent… more
Human evolution: Evolution of language is mind, not biology, linguist writes
| February 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, language, Mind |
“The native languages here in the Pacific Northwest (USA and British Columbia) may have the second most complex sound systems and they also are very far from South Africa.” more