Denyse O'Leary
Programmer: AI could certainly become conscious
From Casper Wilstrup's perspective, we can't demonstrate that anything is NOT conscious so creating conscious AI is simply a matter of using the scientific method
Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”
When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage
Unborn Child Learns the Accents, Rhythms of Mom’s Native Language
There is, however, a dark, little-told tale about how we learned much of what we know about unborn children today
How a Chemist Came To Think That All Life Forms Are Conscious
Emeritus professor of chemistry Addy Pross explains the reasoning process: A universal Darwinism can generate cognition in chemistry
Did the Wily Neanderthal Save Time While Preparing Meals?
An enterprising archaeology team tried cooking birds using methods only available to Neanderthals — and learned some things, including how to avoid burned fingers
Heart attack doctor asks, is death now reversible?
If new findings in resuscitation techniques hold up, says Sam Parnia in his new book, brain conditions now deemed irreversible may be reversibleResuscitation specialist Sam Parnia, reflects in his new book, Lucid Dying (Hachette, August 6, 2024), on the recent discovery that brains can be resuscitated hours after death. From the sample pages offered at the book’s Amazon site, we learn that in 2019, a writer at prominent science journal Nature sent Parnia a copy of the embargoed results of a study of pig brains from a slaughterhouse, kept alive for hours after death. “I was left totally stunned and speechless” he recounts: For at least a decade, I had tried to draw attention to the fact that our concept of life and death should be redefined. Death should no longer be viewed as a specific black-and-white moment. Instead, it should be Read More ›
Heart Attack Doctor: Science Shows That Death Is Not the End
Sam Parnia began by wondering how brain cells can give rise to thoughts. He came to see that the message “from science” was not what he had been led to expect
Let Him Who Would “Represent” Science Beware…
James B. Meigs looks at Anthony Fauci’s new book, On Call, asking what happened? What turned the highly esteemed doctor into a scheming authoritarian?
When Dogs and Pet Pigs Both Heard Humans Cry, What Happened?
Have humans changed dogs’ behavior over thousands of years of domestication?
Once Again: Near-Death Experiences as Possum Tales
In the recent Scientific American article, we learn once again that NDEs evolved as a human way of “playing dead”
Scientific American: Near-Death Experiences Compared To Drug Trip
Now that NDEs are accepted as a clinical fact, more effort is underway to account for them as part of physical nature, like hallucinogenic chemicals
Is Panpsychism Putting Francis Crick’s Pack of Neurons to Flight?
Science writer John Horgan remembers Crick in the ‘90s when reductionism was riding high in neuroscience. What’s happened since?
View: Universities Should Not Speak Up Against Dissenting Profs!
Jay Bhattacharya and Wesley J. Smith respond to an article in a medical journal arguing that universities SHOULD censure dissenters on the faculty
Sleeping Mice Show How the Brain Lays Down Memories
Studies of mice running mazes have shed light on the sharp waves of neurons that assist in forming memories
When Darwinism becomes a fashionable doomsday cult…
Like all cults, it can make otherwise intelligent people begin to sound rather strange, even precarious
Hypothesis: Yes, ET Existed — But Mainly in the Past
A recent paper introduces the idea of cryptoterrestrials, technologically advanced civilizations on Earth, perhaps from earlier geological eras, as the source of the UAPs/UFOs
Will AI Soon Help Animals Talk To Us?
Many animals have a natural tendency to hide their problems for self-protection. AI trained on massive animal datasets might suss them out
Why Panpsychism (Everything Is Conscious) Is Gaining Ground
Many life forms do unexpectedly remarkable things. It is simpler to broaden the circle of consciousness than to keep on trying to prove that human consciousness is just an illusion