Mind Matters Natural and Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

Denyse O'Leary

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5. NDEs: The Enduring Mystery of the Pam Reynolds Case

There can be no question that Reynolds was dead when she had an NDE during a risky operation. To succeed, the procedure required her to be dead…

As evidence for NDEs accumulates, we hear from cardiologists rather than mediums on the subject and that is a promising development for future research.

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Could chatbot goofs be developed into a party game?

Gemini informed her that she was married to a guy she’d never heard of who had died in the 1980s. But think of the entertainment potential…

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Colorful sunset over ocean on Maldives

4. A Prominent Physicist’s Report of a Deathbed Vision

He was intrigued by the fact that the young woman, soon to die, knew that her sister had died. But no one had told her…

Deathbed experiences that include knowledge of information not otherwise communicated to the experiencer would seem to rule out naturalistic explanations.

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Homo heidelbergensis is an extinct prehistoric man. He used more advanced tools than Homo erectus, such as hand axes and spears, and probably fire

A Catholic Priest Talks About Human Evolution

Fr. Martin Hilbert approaches the topic from the perspective of evidence, reason, and faith — and realism about what is at stake in the discussion

Fr. Hilbert shows that we have not found anything that justifies a Darwinian approach to life as somehow more compatible with science than a Christian one.

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Doctor using defibrillator in hospital ward. Clinic staff saving patient life.

3. A Cardiologist Encounters a Near Death Experience

Dr. Aufderheide hardly expected the patient, who was in prolonged cardiac arrest, to tell him what he had been doing — and thinking — when he was in the patient's room

As Sean McDowell points out, a research physician like Dr. Aufderheide, with nothing much to gain from telling the story, should be taken seriously.

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AI chatbot robot assistant sitting at desk using computer as artificial intelligence. Business concept. AI generated

Allstate demands that tech mag delete evidence of AI e-mails

Allstate needs to remember: If the shout hits the fan, don’t start threatening media. Nothing spreads the story faster or guarantees it more publicity than that

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child in danger drowning in the pool, kid girl cannot swim to deep water and raise two hand for help on swimming pool.

2. When information from a near-death experience is confirmed…

A seven-year-old girl who was a near-fatal drowning victim reported things that she saw during a state of clinical death that were later confirmed

A seven-year-old girl who was a near-fatal drowning victim reported things that she saw during a state of clinical death that were later confirmed

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1. When actual experiences challenge the viewpoints of skeptics

Sean McDowell recently hosted J. Steve Miller to talk about his top five believable near-death experiences

Mark Twain and Michael Shermer each had an anomalous experience that he could not explain but would not deny.

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A bunch of pink and purple scheme with a DNA strand in the background. concept XX, XY chromosome.

Evolutionary biology group now claims: Humans are NOT two sexes!

One thing they are doing for sure is casting doubt on the value of evolutionary biology itself, in a way no Darwin doubter, however strong his argument, could.

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Panoramic view of the Earth, sun, star and galaxy. Sunrise over planet Earth, view from space. Elements of this image furnished by NASA

New Book: The Catholic Case for the Design of Nature

Fr. Martin Hilbert notes that the history of life seems more like a separate collection of bushes than a single tree

The great Catholic theologian Aquinas noted that “what happens in the working of nature is either always, or mostly, for the better,” which rules out chance.

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Playful Interaction Between Two Cats, One Black and One Tabby Gray, and a Wooden Cat Puzzle Toy with Balls with a Scratching Post

Science Writing: Cat Intelligence Compared With Baby Intelligence

Cat intelligence is of a rather different kind from dog intelligence

Cat intelligence is often underrated but the human mind belongs to an entirely different order of being from the feline mind.

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Science Writing: Dog Intelligence Compared With Baby Intelligence

It’s an odd question because what we should be asking is, “Are kittens and puppies smarter than babies?”

The comparison doesn’t really work but it underlines the *doctrine* that human intelligence is just another type of animal intelligence.

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News Update Journalism Headline Media Concept

Turns out many news media are on the U.S. government payroll

The basic problem with a federal government funding news media is that the real audience becomes — not the private news seeker — but that government.

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Big brother is watching scary eye surveillance- AI generated

At LinkedIn, Covid myths still rule. Here’s a post they removed

Message to LinkedIn: The origin of COVID is not even a politically sensitive topic any more! Whoever you are protecting, you can just stop.

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The Subtle Ways That Science Writing Erases Human Exceptionalism

Stone tool use among animals versus the Stone Age provides a useful illustration of the tendency

The assumed equivalence between animal behavior and the human mind is a feature of contemporary science beliefs, not of evidence.

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AI Specialist Explains Why AI Can’t Replicate Human Experience

A profound recent experience crystallized the difference for him between brain and machine

Alberto Chierici realized that a machine can analyze information about a sunrise but can never experience it as a moment of “quiet awe.”

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