Could it happen in the United States? Of course. It can happen anywhere where people are willing to ignore the demands of evidence in favor of private truth.
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But what is the origin of unique octopus intelligence? It’s almost as if the self-assured world of biology needed a shakeup.
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Perhaps an unwillingness or inability to even see this finding as evidence against Darwinian evolution, plays a vital role in quietly enabling further research.
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What is the origin of the “complexity and subtlety” the researchers cite? Do they not suggest a mind in or behind the universe?
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The traditional explanation — that natural selection acting on random mutation (Darwinian evolution) explains it all — is becoming increasingly untenable.
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The weakness of mind-as-computer theories is that the steps by which a computer motors through a problem involve nothing that would generate mental states.
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Pavel Durov’s arrest chilled social media bosses but elated those who think it is time for governments, worldwide, to exert more control over what we say.
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Unity of the mind underlines the actual existence of the mind, a concept that many fashionable neuroscientists would very much like to refute.
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The internet crashed the cost of independent content creation but it also crashed the cost of censorship via compliant big social media platforms.
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In his view, no whole human being decides not to do something wrong or harmful. Only the brain’s prefrontal cortex, which has no opinion, does so…
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On the whole, Milligan’s worries are not so much unreasonable as they are perennial. People will NOT easily accept that we might be alone in the universe.
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New brain implant technology may help covertly conscious people make contact because neurons can interface with electrical systems.
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As governments increasingly attempt to control news, a question looms: What they will do when prebunking disapproved information doesn’t prevent Wrongthink?
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Traditionally, atheists have not thought that just about anything is permissible in order to avoid death; like the religious, they approached it philosophically
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One of our readers writes to say, “I resisted the military dictatorship in Brazil in the 1960s, and I will resist the dictatorship of a judge in 2024.”
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Before dismissing the idea as untestable, we should ask, is the idea that consciousness is an illusion, grounded in Darwinian evolution theory, testable?
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Lizards can be surprisingly intelligent. If there are rules, it’s not clear what role, if any, evolution plays.
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Aboitiz concludes, “In the end, the dualistic dilemma between subjective experience and mechanistic explanations seems to me inescapable.”
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In a world of private truth that owes nothing to either faith or science, dissenting opinion is an invasion from an alien universe. Stay safe by not hearing.
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Darwinism’s failure to simply *eliminate* the human mind, as promised, enabled a Pandora’s box of materialist claims for consciousness in all life forms.
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