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Science Book Review: Being You – A New Science of Consciousness

June 8, 2022 by Andy Walsh No Comments

René Descartes meets up with the Reverend Bayes to discuss the nature of consciousness via Anil Seth’s Being You.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Science and Faith Tagged With: Anil Seth, Being You, cognitive science, consciousness, neuroscience, science, science book club, science corner

Science Corner: We Can Remember It for You Wholesnail

May 16, 2018 by Andy Walsh No Comments

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By receiving RNA from the brain of another sea hare, recipients apparently acquired learned behavior from the donors.

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Science Corner: Who’s Wearing You?

September 21, 2016 by Andy Walsh 2 Comments

Self portrait combining an image of a woman's face and a portion of that same face on a smartphone display

Personally, I think the self can be real even if it is complicated; life is equally hard to define but the state of living is still useful to distinguish from alternatives.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: consciousness, science, science corner, self

Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed: Part II

May 11, 2012 by Roy Joseph No Comments

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Picking up from Random Notes on Doctor Bot Ed (5/10/2012) . . . Back to Robots!! Personally, despite my earlier remonstration, I would be quite happy to learn all sorts of subjects from a robot. A robot is not going to rob us of our humanity and despoil our personhood – after all, we have […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: consciousness, Doctor Bot Ed, Hippocampus, mathematics, Robots, Roman General Marcus Claudius Marcellu, The Ph.D. Octopus, William James

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