Continued failure to materialize the mind could be the beginning of a serious reckoning with the problems that physicalism and materialism represent.
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The fact that seizures never result in abstract reasoning implies our reason is not a material power of the body but an immaterial power of the spiritual soul.
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In addition to the massive evidence from neuroscience that the intellect is an immaterial power of the mind, simple logic points to the same truth.
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Gödel’s theorem started by upending mathematics nearly a century ago by showing that it is impossible to create a mathematical Theory of Everything.
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Idealism’s challenging alternative to physicalism and dualism proposes a resolution to metaphysical issues that aligns with quantum mechanics’ peculiarities.
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Nobody knows how instinctive information develops in a dog, or where it is stored, or how it is fetched, decoded, or executed.
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The real danger remains: we may think computers are smarter than us and consequently trust them to make decisions they should not be trusted to make.
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The solution to Micro Softy 22, given here, depends on the assumptions we make about Timmy’s surgeon.
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Whether they continue to push the boundary, or someone else does, they can only bring up so many unaccounted-for facts before it’s time for a revolution.
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Walter Myers, an engineer and philosopher, sees the human soul as soul is what ultimately grounds human identity in something more than matter.
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It is ironic that otherwise intelligent people must play the “we’re just another animal” game while demanding attention for ideas that only humans can give.
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LLMs are enormously expensive yet it is increasingly clear that they will never be reliable enough to be trusted in complex situations where mistakes are costly
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Teilhard noted the same weakness in evolution theory as Thomas Nagel does today: Excluding the origin of mind and consciousness makes it at best half a theory.
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Karikó’s story, as outlined in her book, highlights a big problem with universities: ideas matter less than sheer numbers of papers published.
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For the social media user at X, the advantage of a Community Notes approach is that the volunteer contributors address specific claims, not overall worldviews.
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Fr. Hilbert notes that such documented lucid experiences as he recounts can hardly be the mere outcome of a dying brain shutting down.
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Curiously, once Kyle Reese is safe, he is transformed from a confident, well-meaning soldier into an idiot with a surprising lack of common sense.
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Perhaps the most common myth Myers wants to bust is the idea that someone else can access your data in the cloud. Only you — and those you authorize — can.
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A recent research paper looks at the way minds work with what’s available, something I often encounter in my practice as a neurosurgeon.
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Unlike the Internet, LLMs are not useful enough to prompt customers to pay prices that reflect the hundreds of billions of dollars needed to develop them.
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