Tag: machine
Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places
If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t.
Cellular Cognition? So Much for Darwinism!
Following up in considering Daniel Nicholson’s challenge to the machine concept of the cell, I will examine intracellular transport and cellular behavior.
Is the Cell a Machine, or More Like a Mind?
At least as we’re accustomed to thinking in our age of AI, the alternative to a machine is a mind.
Answering Farina on Behe’s Work: Bacterial Flagella
The video complains about Behe’s “usage of terminology pertaining to machinery.” Is Farina going to charge the entire flagella community with dishonesty?
Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”
Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms.