We don’t usually hear skeptics arguing FOR free will. What’s changed?
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/skeptic-argues-free-will-is-real/
Setting aside the riff on “advanced eating techniques (insects have different eating parts in any event), the big takeaway here is that chimps and dolphins are not much smarter than bumblebees....
https://uncommondescent.com/animal-minds/bumblebees-can-learn-from-each-other-but-why-not/
So it’s sort of like your great-uncle and aunt made the tools, not your great-grandparents. And that's supposed to make all the difference? Meanwhile, another "subhuman" candidate to scratch of...
This might be an argument for the uniquess of being alive in general and of human consciousness in particular.
But wait! What fuels the possibility of separating ourselves from nature? Every run-of-the-mill science writer knows that we are merely the 99% chimpanzee that cannot transcend the accidental blo...
Human exceptionalism is becoming more obvious all the time, just harder to admit.
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/bumblebees-can-solve-puzzles-like-chimps/
Hey, they, they are getting somewhere when they admit that animals are not as smart as humans. All the rest … Some of us are getting tired of the schtick that chimps are just like humans except...
The human mind is hard/impossible to replicate even in its infancy.
https://uncommondescent.com/mind/infants-beat-ai-at-commonsense-psychology/
The way it's described sounds like a plan, doesn’t it? Not an accident.
https://uncommondescent.com/intelligent-design/junk-dna-to-blame-for-humans-big-brains/
At Phys.org: "This study has made significant advances in understanding how animals sense and respond to external magnetic fields—a very active and disputed field." For all we know, humans have...
From The Scientist: "Three people with limited to no mobility in their limbs were able to navigate a specially designed wheelchair just by thinking about where they wanted to go, a study publishe...
On this view, your mind is the laptop, the mug, maybe the toaster you are looking at. There, that solves the problem!
The find challenges the idea that human consciousness underwent a long, slow evolution in recent millennia. It was mainly our technology that evolved.
As a physicist whose research involved computational nano-electronics, for which the entire physical schema relied upon quantum mechanical transport of electrons through molecular structures, it ...
"G. K. Chesterton wrote, 'It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith.'"
https://uncommondescent.com/mind/the-thought-that-stops-thought/