Wrestling with AI: Making More and Better Disciples
AI may have "knowledge," but it lacks wisdom.Even if it were possible that AI reaches consciousness — it will never have the mind of Christ.
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Japanese Novelist Who Won Prestigious Literary Award Unabashedly Used ChatGPT
Meanwhile, authors in the United States are waging war against AI for copyright violationWhile stylistically, the prose AI “created” for Karan’s novel might be “flawless,” it lacks credibility because it lacks the human voice.
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Defending Why We’re More than Machines
We need to look beyond materialism to understand what it means to be human.If something like dualism is true, then it goes a long way to showing the implausibility of the idea that we are solely meat machines, robots, etc.
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You Can’t Always Be Happy
Our dopamine system both excites and tames pleasureHumans cannot achieve permanent happiness. Earthly pleasures do not ultimately satisfy us. The Bible said it. The neuroscientists have proved it.
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Science Needs a Mind to Work
The use of science to discredit the existence of mental subjects is fatally flawed.The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused.
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Philip Goff’s “Why” and Inflated Success
We are still nowhere closer to arriving at a science of consciousnessThere’s little of substance favoring this new theory of consciousness. We still need something like a god piloting the universe.
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On the Limitations of Cutting-Edge Neuroscience
Neuroscientist Joseph Green separates the hype from reality when it comes to current brain research.The current dogma that pervades neuroscience is established by intellectual pressure rather than solid scientific evidence.
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Why AI Can’t Create Genuine Beauty
AI, though a helpful tool in certain contexts, cannot replace the intentionality and creativity of the human person.If our experiences are all just brain chemicals responding to different gradations of light, it would seem nigh impossible to defend beauty.
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Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work While Asleep
Lie down, close your eyes, lose consciousness, and the brain undertakes the heavy lifting that sleep demands.Sleep deprivation and sleep interruptions such as occur with sleep apnea are not mere annoyances but actually damage a whole array of functions.
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The Scientific Evidence for Near-Death-Experiences
A conversation with Dr. Gary Habermas on the plausibility and evidence of near-death-experiences.Is there strong scientific evidence for near-death experiences, the subject of the new film After Death? On an episode of ID the Future, I spoke with Dr. Gary Habermas about his chapter evaluating the evidence for near-death cases in the recent book Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science. As Dr. Habermas explains, most near-death accounts contain both objective and subjective elements. Personal testimony about other realms can’t be independently corroborated, but objective evidence rooted in this world can be confirmed and evaluated. “I can’t verify heavenly discussions or heavenly sites,” says Habermas, “so the kind of NDE data I’m talking about virtually always occur on this earth in normal kinds of situations, like parking lots or in your Read More ›
Materialism Can’t Account for Beauty
Concepts like truth, beauty, and goodness can't be derived from the material worldAnn Gauger holds that truth, beauty, and goodness are hallmarks of a designed world.
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How Could Human Consciousness “Evolve”?
Human consciousness entails a unique human ability to think abstractly .According to Darwinian “science,” things changed, survivors survived, and the human ability to think abstractly materialized out of thin air.
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Science of Consciousness: The Elephant in the Room
Science has had great success in explaining many functions of living organisms in purely material terms. So why not consciousness?After repeated failures to explain consciousness, there’s a new path in the science of consciousness that promises to be the final theory of consciousness.
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When Science Points Beyond the Physical
The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused.Any attempt to use science to discredit the existence of mental subjects is fatally flawed because the bedrock data for all science comes from observation.
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The Big Problem for Physicalism
One physicalist theory after another has either ignored or falsified the central characteristics of consciousnessEditor’s note: We are delighted to welcome the new book from Discovery Institute Press, Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science, edited by Angus J. L. Menuge, Brian R. Krouse, and Robert J. Marks. Below is an excerpt from Chapter 2. Look for more information at MindingtheBrain.org. By Angus Menuge The history of physicalism is one of extraordinary diversity: a wide variety of theories, with multiple versions, have jockeyed for dominance. Yet it is also a tale of persistent failure. One physicalist theory after another has either ignored or falsified the central characteristics of consciousness, intentionality, and rationality that define our mental life. We will begin by tracing the history of physicalism from the early varieties of behaviorism Read More ›
An Introduction to Minding the Brain
Is your mind the same thing as your brain? Or are there aspects of mind that are external to the biology of the brain?Editor’s note: We are delighted to welcome the new book from Discovery Institute Press, Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science, edited by Angus J. Menuge, Brian R. Krouse, and Robert J. Marks. Below is an excerpt from the Introduction. Look for more information at MindingtheBrain.org. Is your mind the same thing as your brain? Or are there aspects of mind that are external to the biology of the brain? This question, referred to as the mind-body problem or the mind-brain problem, has been debated for centuries and has captivated curious minds since the dawn of human contemplation. What is the relationship between our mental life and physical body? Intuition suggests our subjective experience of the world is tightly Read More ›
The Mind is More than the Brain
A new anthology, out today, features 25 philosophers with fresh insights on the mind-body problem.Their provocative conclusion? The mind is indeed more than the brain. We will be offering brief excerpts here in weeks to come.
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The Person as “Immaterial Substance”
Is there substantial evidence that we are more than our bodies? And does that point to the existence of God? Theological anthropologist Dr. Joshua Farris thinks so. In this podcast episode, Farris speaks with host and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor to talk about materialism, mind, and theism, as well as Farris’ new book: The Creation of Self. Additional Resources
Artificial Consciousness Remains Impossible (Part 2)
A machine no more “does things on its own” than a catapult flings by itself.Randomness is a red herring when it comes to serving as an indicator of consciousness.
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Westworld Episode 10 Review (Part Two)
Welcome to the dark end of the journeyLast time, Teddy had just finished saving Dolores from the Man in Black, who turned out to be William all along. He takes her to the coast because that was where he promised to take her when they were performing their pre-programmed loop. However, the coast is apparently not very far because as Dolores dies in his arms, Teddy starts reciting a campy monologue, and then shuts down while the board applauds the speech. Even when they’re trying to escape their loop, the robots still, somehow, find themselves trapped in yet another one of Dr. Ford’s narratives. Dr. Ford appears, addresses the crowd, then orders for Teddy to be cleaned up, and for Dolores to be taken to a nearby Read More ›