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• The Engineering of Consciousness with Michael Levin and Donald Hoffman
  • Mazen AFIF { What if we assume that consciousness is the brain's ability to integrate sensory information, internal states, and memory into a ... }
• The Biggest Mystery in the History of the Universe | Joana Xavier on the Origin of Life
  • Doug Krull { It seems to me that arguing that code comes from a mind isn't a God of the gaps argument because ... }
  • Michael Bellamy { I suggest we answer a more basic question about God before we approach the question of how life got here. ... }
• Why computers are not conscious: Assigning Meaning
  • Mazen AFIF { Is this because there is no consciousness without the life-giving spirit, and that the auditory and visual senses are a ... }
• Bridging Evolution: A Conversation Between Intelligent Design and Third Way
  • Doug Krull { Interesting discussion and I like that it illustrated that people can disagree without yelling or using ad hominem attacks. As ... }
• Unbelievable? How on Earth did life begin? Lee Cronin, Perry Marshall and Denis Noble on the origins of life
  • Hoàng Bùi Đình { That's right, there's a higher kind of order that has some design that controls everything. The current 'local' model in ... }
  • paul despault { @Hoàng Bùi Đình; So it seems that pretty well all the 'religions' somehow acknowledge a sort of 'higher order' of ... }
• Is Evolution Biblical?
  • Hoàng Bùi Đình { The ancients through experience and life experience went through generations of refinement to write the Bible and philosophies in different ... }
• Where life came from, according to Richard Dawkins
  • Hoàng Bùi Đình { A caller asked Dawkins about the Origin of Life. Dawkins replied that it was "a happy chemical accident." A happy ... }
  • Gerald McDonald { The point is, those who believe in the one, are disbelieving the other. Not believing what God says, means you ... }
• Efficiency in Nature: Teleology Hidden in Plain Sight
  • paul despauly { Hi again Perry. The problem with 'life' origins and essentially all other material effects, whether at the atom level, chemical, ... }
  • Fi Parker { This is a classic zero-resistance system. Each organism follows the path of least resistance to get what it needs: Maggots ... }
• Ways to Win the Evolution 2.0 Prize
  • Subhendu Das { Perry, You have asked the question - where did life come from. I think my question is - What answer ... }
  • Hoàng Bùi Đình { I don't follow Darwin's or anyone's theory, I get signals from Mother Earth that are fragmented, little by little and ... }
• The Reasonable Ineffectiveness of Mathematics in The Biological Sciences
  • Fi Parker { looked up your hebrews verse from a video. I am obsessed with making AI translate the bible properly. hmmm. I ... }
  • Alexey Tolchinsky { I completely understand Perry and hear you. We do have different opinions on several topics, which makes it all more ... }
• Life doesn't merely obey rules. Life CREATES them.
  • Fi Parker { This perfectly explains why living systems are different from physical ones. Physics follows mathematical rules because consciousness (teaspoons, rocks, electrons) ... }
• Feel sorry for scientists?
  • Josh S { PZ is exactly like Dave: letting ideology and ego guide their rationale and then throwing a hissy fit when any ... }
  • Josh S { Who cares what that coward fake professor thinks about anything? }
• What does it mean to truly flourish?
  • David Dickenson { Thanks for your response. I look forward to hearing that conversation. }
  • Scott McKinstry { Love the sailing metaphor. Thanks for the conversation. }