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SCT: A Word You Should Learn: Interoception

You have senses all over your body that keep your internal organs balanced even under stress.

SCT: Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

Argument supporting free thought from Darwinian evolution collapses into its own defeater.

Junk DNA Is Slowly Revealing Its Secrets

A CRISPR study found another important use of once-labeled “Junk DNA."

The Cosmos as Sacred Text

Materialism cannot account for mind without borrowing the very idealism it rejects.

Robot Fail Highlights Human Coordination

Despite the rapid progress in artificial intelligence, AI systems continue to fall far short of human dexterity and fine-motor capability.

Humans Can Undergo Metamorphosis

In a choice offered to every person, our Maker offers to fill the void in our hearts and make us new creations.

Did Kissing Evolve?

You cannot strip a kiss of its meaning and still pretend you are studying a kiss.

How the Vagus Nerve Regulates Digestion

The vagus nerve’s right branch plays a key role in digestive signaling.

New Films Dazzle With Awe About the Human Body

Body systems are wondrous in isolation, but they have to work with multiple body systems.

Evolution Favors Irrationality

Darwin's notion of adaption by natural selection shoots itself in the head again.

Fall Colors: For Beauty or for Mere Survival?

Evolutionary thinking assumes that beauty must pay its way, that splendor is tolerated only if it serves survival.

More Disney Effect: Chimps that Think and Believe

What this study (and so many others like it) does reveal, is the tenacity—or perhaps desperation—of an interpretive motive.

Consciousness, continued: Babel in the Brain

Until science recovers that sense that some things are truly right and others truly wrong — it will continue, like Babel, to speak in many tongues while never reaching unto the heavens.

Consciousness: The Ghost in the Laboratory

The proliferation of theories reflects persistence to find an explanation for the one reality that refuses to be mechanized: the human self.

Can Evolution Predict the Past?

What evolved fastest here wasn’t the human skull—it was the evolutionary story.
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