3+ day, 17+ hour ago   (556+ words) Panpsychism has often appeared to be a strategy for rescuing materialism: We have minds, but so what? So do electrons! What about it? While Calvo now runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain, he started…...

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (332+ words) At Graphs About Religion, Washington University political scientist Ryan Burge looks at FIRE’s battery of questions about freedom of speech, put to 68,000 students at 250 U.S. colleges this year (offering illustrative graphs): The third statement was, “shouting down a speaker to…...

5+ day, 21+ hour ago   (140+ words) Here’s a discussion between Dr. Luján Comas and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, dubbed for Spanish speakers, in conjunction with the translation of The Immortal Mind: (2025) into Spanish — La mente inmortal (2026). A special feature of the Spanish translation is an introduction by…...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (211+ words) The Institute for Theological Encounter with Science and Technology (ITEST) is sponsoring a webinar, “Revisiting ‘Computers, Artificial Intelligence, and Virtual Reality’ in Light of Pope Leo XIV’s Magnifica Humanitas,” on October 10, 2025, 11:00 am to noon EST. Magnifica Humanitas (25 May 2026), Leo’s first…...

1+ week, 22+ hour ago   (321+ words) Alex O’Connor, who describes himself as a former atheist/agnostic, appeared on Closer to Truth in a segment called “Why Emergence Cannot Explain Consciousness.” It is Part 2 in a series of 8. [1:50 min] Why Strong Emergence Cannot Explain Consciousness O’Connor: I…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (386+ words) At The Eternally Radical Idea, academic freedom fighter Greg Lukianoff reminds us of how the printing press changed history, inviting comparison with the internet: But all the printing press really did was bring more people into the global conversation — not…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (409+ words) This article is republished from National Review with the permission of the author. Nature — the most prestigious science journal in the world — has editorialized in favor of requiring scientists to register with governments as a condition of participation in the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (1181+ words) We must be very careful to mind our language during everyday life and how you infer the news that’s implied regarding the ‘media is the message’. A corrupted commentary or concept can lead people astray, cause them fear, and send…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (756+ words) A recent article in the usually reliable Atlantic had the provocative title, “It Will Never Be a Good Time to Buy a House.” I thought they were above clickbait. Apparently not. The obvious response is, “Never say never.” The biggest…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (409+ words) Associated Press, founded in 1846, has been a staple of the news industry since then: old, large, mainstream, and respected. But the decline of traditional media in the age of the internet — when six stories, even on a comparatively minor event,…...