The human soul has been understood as quite real but immaterial and non-local. It is instantiated in a body, which is material and local.
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It’s not a conspiracy theory or misinformation to say that there is a lot of fraud in science right now and restoring trust includes dealing with that.
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If undetected AI hallucination continues, after a while, completely erroneous information will become a more significant part of the overall information base.
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Fourteen-year-old Sewell Setzer’s suicide in Orlando offered a window into the problem of lonely people confusing confuse digital imitation with real intimacy.
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Donny Budinsky and co-host Sam prompted a general discussion of experience versus reality when it comes to the human mind.
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Tyler Bauer: If personal identity is grounded in an immaterial soul, the real Smith is the body that contains his original soul.
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Mappouras doesn’t rule out creativity in machines; he wants to develop a test that could recognize it.
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Suggesting a trend, a new book which aims to dethrone materialism in science, has been selling well in Europe and coming out shortly in English.
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As prominent neuroscientist Christof Koch’s recent difficulties with Cancel Culture show, the cracks in materialist neuroscience are getting harder to paper over.
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Chatbots scrape “answers” from Wikipedia, which makes its views seem “mainstream,” whatever their relationship with reality.
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If life is indeed computation but vastly more complex, the argument for a Programmer beyond this frame of reality seems solid.
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The Chinese Room thought experiment helped us see the nature of computation, as opposed to human thinking.
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The relational model has practical consequences. It considers flourishing as less about “me” and more about “we.”
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George Orwell predicted this. In 1984, the government imposed a daily Two Minute Hate. But in real life, online rage is an addiction and recovery is a choice.
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The system became both mechanized and commercialized. No one was really reading what no one was really writing. Then the dam broke.
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People whose lives are non-fiction — who must raise funds for a serious legal issue — will doubtless be glad to learn that the courts are still non-fiction too.
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Two other panelists are Chapman University’s Mark Skousen and John Tamny, author of The Deficit Delusion (2025). George Gilder will moderate.
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Here at Mind Matters News, we thought there might be fallout. And 1.15M views in less than a week seems like fallout already. Something’s rotten.
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Humans can choose their incentives. Darwin’s wasps, by contrast, cannot have any goal other than survival. That’s why the analogy is not useful.
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Far from heralding a coming secular triumph over God, the verbal output of chatbots suggests that, generally, people conclude that God must in fact exist.
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