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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.
• 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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