Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Human Computation — A “Practical Application” of Intelligent Design
As Denyse O’Leary asks, “Why is it comparatively easy to develop a program to play chess, as opposed to teaching a robot to walk freely?”
A Strange Way of Speaking About the Brain
A peculiar habit of disassociation is widespread among many who study the brain.
Denton, Gilder: The Biology of Surprise
Darwin’s evolutionary mechanism is just a blunt recipe, an algorithm, and it can only select what is immediately functional.
Gilder on Surprise, Creativity, and Human Exceptionalism
It’s strikes me that this is a difference between design and Darwinian thinking.
Scientific American: Prevention Can Benefit Any Suicidal Person
My last hospice patient, Bob, told me that after some months of just wanting to be dead, that he had “come out of the fog.”