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Subject headings: Evolution, Religion & Atheism • Cognition • Artificial Life • Artificial Intelligence

 

EVOLUTION, RELIGION & ATHEISM

Adams, Douglas
• Is There an Artificial God?

Almond, Paul
• Can God Exist Outside of Space-Time?

Dawkins, Richard
• Collateral Damage 1: Embryos and Stem Cell Research
• Collateral Damage 2
• Why There Almost Certainly Is No God

Ellis, Albert
• The Case Against Religion

Floyd, Chris
• Belief and Betrayal: The New Jahiliyyah

Harris, Sam
• There is No God (And You Know It)
• Science Must Destroy Religion

McFadden, Johnjoe
• Bravo! We're Decoded But a Mystery Still
• How to Live Longer
• Our Genes Are Doomed
• Sowing the Seeds of a Better Future
• The Kindness of Strangers
• The Origin of All Life
• The Proteome
• The Unselfish Gene

Miller, Harlan B.
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Science, Ethics, and Moral Status

Schempp, Ellery
•
Warning: Gravity is "Only a Theory"

Singham, Mano
• Agnostic or Atheist?
• Burden of Proof 1
• Burden of Proof 2: What Constitutes Evidence for God?
• Burden of Proof 3: The Role of Negative Evidence
• Can We Ever Be Certain About Scientific Theories?
• "Christian" Country?
• Choosing the God We Want
• Creationism and Moral Decay
• Cults and Religions: Should a Mormon be President?
• Dover's Dominos: Why Intelligent Design Creationism Will Lose
• Emotional Reactions to Darwin
• End of the Road for Intelligent Design?
• Evolution and Atheism
• Evolution: The Bad, the Good, and the Ugly
• Free Will
• Global Warming
• IDC Gets On Board the Brain Train
• Intelligent Design Creationism Movement Loses Support in Kansas
• Israel and the Palestinians
• Is the U.S. a 'Christian Nation'?
• It's the Rael Thing
• Looking for Deep Ancestors
• Natural Selection and Moral Decay
• Our Common Ancestors
• Paley's Watch, Mount Rushmore, and Other Stories of Intelligent Design
• Religion's Last Stand: The Brain
• Religion's Last Stand, Part 2: The Role of Descartes
• Seeing the World Through Darwin's Eyes
• Sexual Selection
• Should Secularists Fight for 100% Separation of Church and State?
• The Bible as History: Enter Modern Archeology
• The Bible as History: How Science Unearths the Past
• The Bible as History: Why the Bible Was Invented
• The Book of Revelations and the Rapture
• The Desire for Belief Preservation
• The Devil in the Details
• The Dubious Appeal of Immortality
• The Origin of Life
• The Role of Emotion in Maintaining Religion
• The Role of Emotion in Maintaining Religion: A Follow Up
• The Devil in the Details
• The Warmongers
• Wanted: 'Godwin's Law'-Type Rule for Science
• What is Science?
• What Makes Us Good at Learning Some Things and Not Others?
• When God Talks to People
• When the Going Gets Tough, IDC Gets Weird
• What the Neuroscience Community Thinks About the Mind/Brain Relationship
• Where Was God During the Tsunami?
• Why is Evolutionary Theory So Upsetting to Some?
• Why Religious (And Other Ideas) Are So Persistent
• Why Small Problems Create the Most Difficulty for Christians

COGNITION

Chatham, Chris
•
King of the Cortex: Anterior PFC

• The Myth of Infantile Amnesia

Cole, Juan
•
Of Mushrooms and Peak Experiences

Hankins, Peter
•
A Genuine Problem
•
All Done With Mirrors
•
A Spectrum of Consciousness
• Consciousness and Relativity: A Critique of Richard Pico's Biological Relativity Theory

• Consciousness Yet to Come
• Dimensions of Mind
• Does 'Consciousness' Exist?
• Idealist Consciousness
• I Feel It In My Blood
• Ignorance is the Answer
• Implicature
• Magic Scanners
• Me Do It
• Revisiting Libet
• Seeing Red
• Strange Ideas
• The Mind Gap
• Why Be Conscious?

Lehar, Steven
• The Constructive Aspect of Visual Perception: A Gestalt Field Theory Principle of Visual Reification Suggests a Phase Conjugate.

ARTIFICIAL LIFE

Grand, Steve
• Anarchy in Action
• Battle With GA Joe
• Bubbles in Cyberspace: Cellular Approach to Virtual Environments & Intelligent Synthetic Life Forms
• Confessions of a Cyber-God
• Creatures: An Excercise in Creation
• Creatures: Artificial Life Autonomous Software Agents for Home Entertainment
• Curiosity Created the Cat
• Delegate Sensibilities
• Effing the Ineffable: An Engineering Approach to Consciousness
• Machines Like Us
• Moving AI Out of its Infancy: Changing Our Preconceptions
• Of Mountains and Molehills
• The Year 2001 Bug: What Ever Happened to HAL?
• Three Observations That Changed My Life
• Where Newton Went Wrong

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Almond, Paul
• AI As a Boundary System
• How AI Would Work
• Downward Transfer of Probabilities
• Planning as Modeling in AI

Cowart, Monica R.
• Embodied Cognition

Hankins, Peter
• Bayesian Consciousness
• Brittle
• Chess
• The Narcissus Syndrome
• Where Do I Begin?

Vinge, Vernor
• The Coming Technological Singularity: How to Survive in the Post-Human Era

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