A guy named “SittingOnTheFence” is hovering between belief and non-belief. He asks me some GREAT questions. He says:
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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?
- 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. }
- The Engineering of Consciousness with Michael Levin and Donald Hoffman


