On this episode of Mind Matters News, host Robert J. Marks is joined by Bradley Norris as they welcome Hal Philipp, the man behind the modern touchscreen and a prolific inventor with an impressive 98 U.S. patents. Hal shares his story and some of the lessons he’s learned over a career in invention.
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Bradley’s ability to “live out loud” as a Christian without proselytizing deeply shaped those around him.
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His paper, “Artificial General Intelligence Is Nowhere Near, Artificial Specific Stupidity Is Already Here,” challenges both hype and groundless fear.
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We are reversing our usual order and giving the answer to #57 first. Ben could have one of two possible family relationships to me.
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The two disciplines of neuroscience and philosophy must work together to better understand what it means to be conscious, to choose, and to be human.
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Green argues for humility because, while neuroscience is powerful and rapidly advancing, it may never explain the full reality of the human person.
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The problem with neuroscience today, Dr. Green says, isn’t lack of data, but lack of a unifying theory.
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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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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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The relational model has practical consequences. It considers flourishing as less about “me” and more about “we.”
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The Turing Test 2.0 mirrors the way good teachers test students — not asking for memorized answers but for concepts to be applied in unfamiliar situations.
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His principles are simple: Eat foods our bodies historically recognize, avoid manufactured shortcuts, and stop eating long before you’re stuffed.
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Hal Philipp’s inventions underpin automatic faucets, door sensors, and the capacitive touchscreens that made the smartphone era possible. In this podcast, he offers a candid field guide to turning ideas into impact. The discussion ranges from startup structure and venture capital to patent warfare, corporate brinkmanship, and the social aftershocks of the iPhone. Philipp is interviewed by Robert J. Marks and Bradley Norris. Engineering education Marks opens with a challenge to engineering education. Universities excel at training graduates for Boeing or Motorola, but seldom spotlight entrepreneurship as a viable path. Philipp agrees and then complicates the picture. If he could rewind, he says, he would “get a little more assistance,” likely allying with a larger organization to gain leverage. In Read More ›
When we swipe a phone or tap a touchscreen, few of us realize how much engineering — and legal grit — underlies that simple gesture. In an interview with Mind Matters podcasting, inventor Hal Philipp traces the path from lone tinkerer to successful founder, and finally to weary veteran of patent warfare. Philipp, a key inventor behind modern capacitive sensing and touchscreens, delivers a sober message for innovators: invention is only half the battle; defending your invention can define your company’s fate. From Single-Point Touch to a Full Touchscreen Philipp’s early work focused on single-channel capacitive sensors — one-button touch or proximity detection. The breakthrough came when he generalized the idea into linear touch sliders and then into a circular Read More ›
His business grew — not from grand design — but from a series of smart, well-timed responses to opportunity.
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The researchers discovered a limitation when they tweaked some standard puzzlers and – never short of an answer – bots didn’t pick up on the change.
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The conversation highlighted the need to follow the evidence wherever it leads — even if it leads to the possibility of divine intervention.
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In clinical death, the brain’s chatter ceases involuntarily, granting a similar opening.
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In an intellectually rich discussion on Mind Matters News, neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor and host Dr. Robert J. Marks explore the scientific, philosophical, and theological dimensions of free will, determinism, and the immaterial nature of the soul. The conversation centers around contents of the new book The Immortal Mind by Egnor and Denyse O’Leary. What emerges is a compelling case not only for the reality of free will, but also for the immortality of the human soul, grounded in reason and neuroscience. The self-refuting nature of free will denial The conversation begins with an analogy: If a spilled bottle of ink coincidentally formed the words “It’s going to snow,” no one would believe that message had real meaning. Similarly, Egnor Read More ›
Egnor describes faith as a deep relationship that may not always yield happiness about life circumstances but fosters lasting joy, independent of circumstances.
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