Speaker: Wesley J. Smith

Artificial intelligence and network concept

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podcast

Angus Menuge, Brian Krouse, Robert J. Marks, and Wesley J. Smith
Date
April 17, 2025

Tagged
human brain, Humanize, Minding the Brain, Near Death Experiences, split-brain surgery}

The Unique Properties of the Human Mind

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April 17, 2025

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Today’s episode is a special rebroadcast of an episode of Humanize, a Discovery Institute podcast that discusses the issues that impact human personhood and to defend the unique and intrinsic moral worth of human life. Here, Humanize host Wesley J. Smith speaks to three contributors of the recent volume Minding the Brain to explore from both philosophical and scientific viewpoints why the Read More ›

A salesperson working in an office on a virtual call

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podcast

Robert J. Marks and Wesley J. Smith
Date
November 10, 2022

Tagged
AI, Algorithms, Artificial Intelligence, Computers, Consciousness, immortality, Non-Computable You (book), Robert J. Marks, Sentience, transhumanism, Wesley J. Smith}

Can a Computer Be a Person?

_{Robert J. Marks and Wesley J. Smith
November 10, 2022

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Are we on the verge of the era of machines? Is AI destined to supplant most human endeavors and activities? Can a computer be deemed a person? And if so, should that computer be granted rights as part of the moral community? Will we ever attain immortality by uploading our minds into computers as transhumanists predict? And what the heck Read More ›