Category Archives: Mind and Brain

Schedule and Abstracts for the March 10-11 meeting at Biola

Posted on January 26, 2019 by David Snoke Comments Off on Schedule and Abstracts for the March 10-11 meeting at Biola

Once again, we have a great lineup. The theme of the meeting is “Emergence, Spontaneous Pattern Formation, and the Origin of Life.” The location will be at the Calvary Chapel on the campus of Biola University in southern California. This … Continue reading →

Emergence, History of Science, Information, Intelligent Design, Mind and Brain, Physics

Videos for the 2017 Annual Meeting now available.

Posted on June 30, 2017 by David Snoke Comments Off on Videos for the 2017 Annual Meeting now available.

The theme was “human exceptionalism”; for a review of the talks see this post. The videos and slides for the talks are available at this link. You must be a member to access this page.

Events, Global Warming, Human exceptionalism, Mind and Brain

Review of the 2017 Annual Meeting

Posted on April 10, 2017 by David Snoke 2 Comments

The annual was great fun for all for attended, with controversial and stimulating talks and robust discussion as always. Several attendees wished that these meetings could happen more often! This was our largest meeting yet, with about 60 people in … Continue reading →

AI, Darwinism, Events, Global Warming, History of Science, Human exceptionalism, Mind and Brain

Schedule and Abstracts for the Annual Meeting

Posted on March 10, 2017 by David Snoke Comments Off on Schedule and Abstracts for the Annual Meeting

Friday, April 7 7:00 P.M. Registration 7:30 P.M. Opening remarks by David Snoke, president of the CSS. “What is Human Exceptionalism?” 8:00 P.M. C. John Collins. “You are a Human Animal” Theologians have offered several competing interpretations of “the image of … Continue reading →

Events, Human exceptionalism, Mind and Brain

Book Review: An engineering approach to fiction?

Posted on August 31, 2015 by David Snoke Leave a comment

Diary of a Robot, by Lewis Jenkins, (available at Lulu)  clearly bears the stamp that its author has a long history doing engineering in high-tech firms. The book revolves around the question: what is a “good” robot? If I am an engineer and … Continue reading →

AI, Ethics, Mind and Brain, Reviews