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Why Cartesian Dualism?
Materialism is dead. There are simply too many questions left unanswered after years of studying the brain. Now, people are scrambling for a new...
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Neuroscience, Quantum Physics, and the Nature of Reality
Dr. Michael Egnor and Dr. Bruce Gordon discuss quantum mechanics, the nature of reality, idealism and how to interpret the finding of modern neuroscience....
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Design versus Naturalist Origin Theories of Animal Algorithms
The programming inside the animal brain is much like a game of Jenga. If one tries to pull the wrong block, then the entire...
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Jaw Dropping Algorithms That Allow Social Behavior to Thrive
How do bees know how to build their hives? Insects have a wide variety of fascinating social behaviors. Where do they come from? Robert...
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The Astonishing Algorithms That Allow Animals to Navigate & Migrate
An algorithm is a step-by-step procedure to perform a specific task. We usually think of algorithms as being performed by computers. Did you know...
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Randomness, Information Theory, and the Unknowable
In the 1960s, mathematician and computer scientist Gregory Chaitin published a landmark paper in the field of algorithmic information theory in the Journal of...