AI gen writing: Model collapse in slow motion
When more and more AI-generated writing floats around the internet, we start to realize what we are wading through.
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A Microsoft exec responds to students booing tech
Unions are springing up in the tech sector. But is the 1930s strategy of unionization still the right one nearly a century later?
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Bogus AI-gen citations are multiplying rapidly in research
Researchers warn that, without intervention, bogus citations could impact scientific discovery, policy, and public understanding.
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Researchers: Bumblebees can develop creative solutions
The bumblebee has only about one million neurons (humans have 86 billion). The number of neurons needed for complex behavior may be overestimated.
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Hush! A Forest Organizes Itself in a Non-Darwinian Way
Plants co-operate as well as compete — though that doesn’t mean they are consciousIf we accept the idea of an underlying design in nature, we need not suppose that trees are conscious in order to understand their complex relationships.
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Novels: Did someone stay up late? Or is it just AI?
We also tried an AI detector on copy from Mind Matters News…
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A moment of sanity: The Leiden Declaration on AI
Even as supersmart types get trapped in the “AI is becoming human” nonsense, a group of mathematicians is trying to Make Skepticism Normal Again.
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Philosopher: Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain
Memory is a function of time, not place, says Oxford's Victoria TrumbullNeurosurgeon Michael Egnor agrees; the image of storing and erasing memories is popular due to computer technology but not relevant to memory.
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Most Christian Innovators Have Not Read the Pope’s Letter
The calling is to be involved, to be on the site, with your hands in the work, and building with theological clarity and human dignity at the center.
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AI chatbots fronted a fake eye disease and told everyone about it
The red flags were pretty obvious, actually. We should keep this in mind when we hear commentators extol the wonders of AI in health care.
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At Aeon: Mathematics is not a human invention
If mathematics is discovered, not invented, the foundation of our universe is abstract, not concrete.
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Is materialism holding science back?
The very fact that a respectable discussion is beginning around this question tells us that something has changed.
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The Pope Just Weighed In On AI
If your religious organization doesn’t yet have a theology of AI, start building one because the conversation is already happening without youThe question isn’t whether AI will harm us. The question is actually whether we will remain human.
Read More ›Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviewed on the reality of the mind
Michael Egnor is being asked to speak in many venues as the result of the publication of his and Denyse O’Leary’s 2025 book, The Immortal Mind.
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God, The Science, The Evidence: The Dawn of a Revolution
The book sets out the reasons for thinking that the universe is the creation of a rational supernatural being, as traditional religion and philosophy have attestedIn effect, therefore, this book is a call for a return to the medieval vision of a rational God who created rational creatures equipped to discover the verities of nature. In other words, to do science.
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An Evening With Michael Egnor at Cornell
The linked talk alone was worth coming to hear, but the Q&A truly did not disappointEgnor continued to reference the scientific research at the foundation of his talk and repeatedly challenged his questioners.
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McDiarmid: The Critical Flaw in Thinking AI Can Do Just Anything
At the Chicago Tribune, he asks readers to recognize what is missing from the mixRussian philosopher Nikolai Berdyaev long ago argued that human creativity springs from freedom — just what machines do not have.
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Why Engineer Walter Bradley (1943-2025) Still Matters
For Bradley, engineering was not about prestige or profit, but about restoring dignityBradley’s ability to “live out loud” as a Christian without proselytizing deeply shaped those around him.
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Why the Real Danger of AI Is Not What You Think
What really makes Donald Wunsch stand out is his focus on what AI can actually do todayHis paper, “Artificial General Intelligence Is Nowhere Near, Artificial Specific Stupidity Is Already Here,” challenges both hype and groundless fear.
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How Life Becomes Comprehensible: A New Scientific Framework
Exploring the principles that make existence understandableSimply put, there is no gradualistic pathway to explain penguins…or cetaceans, or bats, or marine iguanas, etc., or almost anything else, as Behe made clear.
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