Month: October 2025 | Page 4

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 4, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Euthanasia (advance directives), MAiD (euthanasia) in Canada, Palliative care, Ramona Coelho}

Canadian Dementia Patient Euthanized at Family’s Request

_{My mother died of Alzheimer’s. I could have easily maneuvered her into a situation where she would have seemed to have consented to assisted suicide} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 4, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Euthanasia becomes the easier path once we objectify the lives of patients and demote them from full equality into a killable caste.

human hand holding digital identification card, technology and innovation concept. hand and digital identification card or digital ID..

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Peter Biles
Date
October 4, 2025

Categorized
Surveillance, Technocracy

Tagged
AI, Artificial Intelligence, Britain, data, Digital ID cards, Keir Starmer, Larry Ellison, Oracle, Technology}

Are Digital ID Cards and AI Surveillance on the Horizon?

_{The man who believes AI-surveillance is in our future is about to have even more influence over social media and its algorithms} _{Peter Biles
October 4, 2025

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Surveillance, Technocracy}

Most Americans can’t fathom that an unsavory social media post could earn them a knock on their front door a day later. But that’s happening in Europe on a near daily basis.

Infant chimpanzee in Gombe National Park, Tanzania

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 3, 2025

Categorized
Animal mind, Human exceptionalism, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Chimpanzees, David Greybeard (chimpanzee), Jane Goodall (1934-2025), Keith Schneider, Louis Leakey (1903-1972), Mary Leakey (1913–1996), Mireya Mayor, Mohana Basu, Nick Boyle, Rachel Fieldhouse, The Book of Hope (2021)}

Was the Legendary Jane Goodall (1934–2025) the End of an Era?

_{Perhaps. A more realistic appraisal of the reality of human uniqueness is needed if we hope to prevent the extinction of chimpanzees in the wild} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 3, 2025

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Animal mind, Human exceptionalism, Philosophy of Mind}

While Goodall believed that there is no sharp line dividing humans and chimpanzees, she herself was one of many who embodied the sharp line.

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 3, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Human eggs from skin cells}

Another Radical Reproductive Technology

_{Researchers have created human eggs from skin cells and successfully fertilized some of them with IVF} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 3, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

In the world of commodified reproduction, the babies manufactured in the lab with such great effort can be aborted through the ninth month in many jurisdictions

Kangaroo at Lucky Bay in the Cape Le Grand National Park

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
October 2, 2025

Categorized
Philosophy, Politics, Science

Tagged
Billboard Chris, Featured, Freedom From Religion Foundation, Jerry Coyne, Jerry Coyne and Freedom From Religion Foundation, Kat Grant, Richard Dawkins, Steven Pinker, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows (book 2025)}

Humanists Cancel Steven Pinker’s Lecture Over Trans Issues

_{The Humanist Society of Australia pulled out of sponsoring his lecture because they linked him with a defense of the idea that humans are male or female} _{Denyse O'Leary
October 2, 2025

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Philosophy, Politics, Science}

The episode is part of a much broader picture: When private truth beats public truth, ideology quickly overrules science.

Conceptual art of think, brain mind, mental health, spiritual, soul and psychology. concept idea art. surreal drawing illustration. isolated on a white background.

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News
Date
October 2, 2025

Categorized
Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Christof Koch, Consciousness, COSM 2025, Michael Egnor, Robert J. Marks, Walter Myers III}

COSM 2025 Panel to Tackle the Hard Problem: Consciousness

_{Michael Egnor sees the failure to find a “material center of consciousness” in the brain as a science success, not failure. It points to an important truth about us} _{News
October 2, 2025

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Artificial general intelligence (AGI), Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

As prominent neuroscientist Christof Koch’s recent difficulties with Cancel Culture show, the cracks in materialist neuroscience are getting harder to paper over.