Mind Matters Natural and Artificial Intelligence News and Analysis

Denyse O'Leary

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Fighting Pseudoscience With Empathy? Try a Little Humility First…

The accusation of “pseudoscience,” under the current science regime, has often become little more than an elite-driven smear against inconvenient data

Sutter would be better off to worry more when things are called pseudoscience because, despite evidence in their favor, they contradict fashionable thinking.

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Does the Brain Constrain the Mind Instead of Creating It?

There is no systematic, science-based reason today to think that’s not true and plenty of evidence suggests that it is

To insist that the mind is not real and can’t be constrained amounts to taking a philosophical position, not one based on science. There is no relevant science.

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A Darwinian Argument for a Global Government

The evolutionary researchers worry that we have not evolved to be worthy of a global government and will face ecological ruin in consequence.

It’s not clear that the case for global government, such as it is, needs an evolution myth; more likely, the evolution proponents just want in on the game.

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Deciphering the Hidden Meanings of Cave Art

In many cases, there are more dots and lines than animals, which suggests some sort of early information system

Our remote ancestors were forging a system for writing down what they knew thousands of years before what we think of as history.

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AI Will Disrupt Everything — But Forget the Robot Apocalypse!

It will be a slow, steady, measured disruption, like the one the printing press created

Unlike the birth of publishing, we don’t all face outright in-your-face state censorship that prevents the value of the new technologies from being realized.

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A Biochemist Begins To Sense the Limits of Materialism

William Reville seems both confident and uncertain at the same time that science can crack the problem of consciousness

Materialist science has got about as far as it can go and progress will only be made if we are willing to contemplate non-materialist approaches.

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Why Logician Kurt Gödel Believed in Life After Death

He saw human folly as an opportunity to reform and learn, because our souls are immortal whether we like it or not

In a deeply rational, ordered universe, Gödel argues, human potential — frustrated in so many ways here — must flower afterward elsewhere.

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Why Don’t We Hear So Much About “False Information” Any More?

The new censorship target, “disinformation,” means something profoundly different, and the difference is scary

As Tablet editor Jacob Siegel shows, truth or falsehood is irrelevant to disinformation, which is whatever government does not want you to know.

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What Was It Like To Grow Up in the Paleolithic era?

We are learning much about our ancestors’ lives from the less highly publicized finds

From the fragments gathered so far, it seems we have no evidence for a history of the human mind, only the history of human technology.

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Great Ideas, Like All Ideas, Are Immaterial in Principle

The main reasons we hear more ideas today is that we are building on basic past ideas plus there are many more human beings and communications systems

i Loeb sounds as though has absolutely no idea what makes human intelligence unique; thus he mistakes the result for the cause.

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Does It Take a PR Agency to Make Neanderthals Human?

It’s interesting to watch how science writing on Neanderthals has changed over the years

There is no reason to think Neanderthals were not human in the usual sense except that someone must be the subhuman if Darwinism is true.

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How Bottom Up Media Now Threaten the Traditional Top Tier

New media resources like subscription-based Substack are rapidly becoming the venue of choice for whistleblowers with stories to break

The rise and fall of intellectual movements may well now depend on their ability to use new media successfully to express their views.

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If Science Doesn’t Support Dualism — Well, It Should

At Big Think, Kmele Foster interviews five figures in consciousness studies. Not one is a dualist but a listener may come away with a new appreciation for dualism

Dualism — human consciousness is real, immaterial, and special — is the only approach to consciousness that accords with the evidence.

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How Bottom Up Media Are Slowly Replacing Top Down Media

The decline and death of legacy media organizations is speeding up and the media replacing them are much smaller, more numerous and more independent

A key problem: The legacy media that cling to government and corporate interests in order to survive have so much less use now for freedom of the press.

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Why Does the Proposal for Chimp–Human Hybrids Keep Coming Back?

From David Barash’s perspective, the humanzee’s suffering is rendered worthwhile precisely because it enables the denigration of other human beings

Physicist Rob Sheldon warns, when ridiculous inhumane ideas are routinely aired, we become more willing to accept inhumane ideas that are in fact quite viable.

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Human Brain Tries Immediately to Compensate for Language Loss

Neurosurgeons recently had a unique opportunity to observe brains undergoing the loss of the speech area and compensating in real time

The observations showed that the brain needs specific lobes for normal processing but also — good news for rehab — that it compensates naturally.

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