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Cold Calls to Touchscreens: Hal Philipp’s Entrepreneurial Journey
Philipp’s remarkable story illustrates seven core entrepreneurial principles
Conundrum: Split Human Brain But Unified Perception
1500 papers later, current research suggests that a non-materialist approach to the neuroscience of the human mind is quite viable
AI Is a Long Way From Replacing Software Coders
Despite C-suite claims, they are not likely to take our jobs any time soon because they do not understand what words mean and how words relate to the physical world
Monday Micro Softy 38: A Pitcher’s Lament
How can Lefty Wright be the winning pitcher in an exciting game without throwing a single pitch?
Move Over, AI. Bird Brains Are Giving You a Run for Your Money
Could ten thousand birds develop a theory of mind just by scaling? A tale in three parts
Does the Mind Have a Specific Location in the Brain?
A rabbi asks neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how consciousness can exist without a place in the brain
AI’s Not “The Answer” In Our World of Mysteries, Not Puzzles
A focus on AI encourages us to see problems that are really mysteries as puzzles, which makes addressing them much harder
AI in Education: Is the System Being Gamed — or the Student?
AI makes it easier to game the system, but many users are also being gamed
An Evil Chatbot Clones Itself… Sci-fi or Real Life Threat?
ChatGPT was asked to explain how this might be done. The results were revealing
Can Faith and Neuroscience Align? Yes, Says Science Writer
If both faith and neuroscience are honestly seeking the truth, says Denyse O’Leary, they will find much that is mutually supportive
Podcast: Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor Reads From The Immortal Mind
He followed the evidence and came to see that the human mind has a spiritual and immortal dimension
Sound of Thunder: Can Chance and the Butterfly Effect Coexist?
In Part 5 of my review of the sci-fi classic, I look at whether the effect could really upend evolution, however evolution is understood
Faith and Science Before Modern Science — a Fresh Look
Winston Ewert offers a surprising look at how Christians debated science theories in the ancient and medieval world
A Butterfly’s “Second Head”: What It Says About Intelligence
Not what it says about intelligence in the butterfly but in nature itself…
An Ancient Argument for the Existence of the Human Soul
Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine tells a friend about a dream a skeptical local doctor had, where a sharp youth asked him some pointed questions
Consciousness and Free Will: JP Moreland’s Case for Dualism
He argues that dualism, the sense that we are souls as well as bodies, is the natural interpretation of our lived experience
Sound of Thunder: Surfing the Time Waves When the Tide Is High
When plants start growing through cement walls, it is obvious that there is a problem
Slime Mold: Memory and Learning Without Neurons
Can memories be stored outside the brain? Once we have separated memory and learning from neurons — do the traditional assumptions about them still really apply?