Papers by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
... Wei Dichun; Zheng Hongfan; Wang Yibiao; Shi Rende; Zhao Xuewei; Ye Xiaowen; Cai Mingzhao; Wan... more ... Wei Dichun; Zheng Hongfan; Wang Yibiao; Shi Rende; Zhao Xuewei; Ye Xiaowen; Cai Mingzhao; Wang Guoqing; Qian Xiaoqian; Jiang Weiqiang; Liu Zhengrong ... In some places, the sky turns from menacing with thick black clouds to sunny with no clouds in sight, while in other ...
Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviews four theologians at Helsingor, Denmark, and an atheist in London.... more Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviews four theologians at Helsingor, Denmark, and an atheist in London. Niels Henrik Gregersen, theologian, University of Copenhagen. Science is more analytical, religion is more synthetic, comprehensive. The two are not at war, but religion cuts a wider path through all of human experience. Holmes Rolston, III, philosopher, theologian, Colorado State University (Rolston interview starts at 6 minutes, 30 seconds). Science is good at empirical questions, but does not touch the deeper value questions. After four hundred years of science, the deeper value questions are as sharp and as painful as ever. Christopher Southgate, theologian, University of Exeter. Science focuses on limited questions, but most aspects of life go beyond to questions of personal experience and transcendent truth, the answers to which are far more difficult. Celia Deane-Drummond, theologian, Notre Dame University. The study of nature in science can point to God, but religion confronts ethical questions. The goal of the religious search is a transcendent God, who cannot be subject to the scientific analysis appropriate for the physical world. Anthony A. C. Grayling, philosopher, atheist, New College of the Humanities, London. Science has demands for rationality and is powerfully self-correcting. Religion has faith and suppresses doubt.
Acknowledgments A Point of Departure by Robert Lawrence Kuhn Foreword by Hans Mark Introduction b... more Acknowledgments A Point of Departure by Robert Lawrence Kuhn Foreword by Hans Mark Introduction by Stewart Nozette Part I: The Strategic Defense Initiative Program Defense R&D and National Competitiveness: Past, Present, and Future Prospects by John McTague The Strategic Defense Initiative Research Program: Conception and Execution by Gerold Yonas The Strategic Defense Initiative: What, Why, and How by Major General Robert R. Rankine, Jr., USF Part II: The Commercialization of Technology: President Public Policy Technology and World Leadership by D. Bruce Merrifield The Department of Defense Policy Environment on Technology Transfer by Gerald D. Sullivan Perspectives on Technology Transfer by George Gamot Part III: Private-Sector Requirements for Successful Commercialization Collaborative Research and Development by Admiral Bobby R. Inman Investment Banking Requirements by Wayne G. Fox Innovative Financing for Emerging Technology Companies by Mark Lancaster Part IV: SDI Technologies...
New Perspectives Quarterly, 2013
New Perspectives Quarterly, 2012
Theology and Science, 2015
One of the deepest issues facing us humans is why we exist, and the starting fundamental issue is... more One of the deepest issues facing us humans is why we exist, and the starting fundamental issue is why anything exists at all. This book is a great resource for students and researchers alike who wi...
Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, 2024
DOI - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2023.12.003.
A comprehensive review of consciousness... more DOI - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2023.12.003.
A comprehensive review of consciousness in a taxonomy (organizing framework) and with implications for AI consciousness, virtual Immortality, etc. Diverse explanations or theories of consciousness are arrayed on a roughly physicalist-to-nonphysicalist landscape of essences and mechanisms. Categories: Materialism Theories (philosophical, neurobiological, electromagnetic field, computational and informational, homeostatic and affective, embodied and enactive, relational, representational, language, phylogenetic evolution); Non-Reductive Physicalism; Quantum Theories; Integrated Information Theory; Panpsychisms; Monisms; Dualisms; Idealisms; Anomalous and Altered States Theories; Challenge Theories. There are many subcategories, especially for Materialism Theories. Each explanation is self-described by its adherents, critique is minimal and only for clarification, and there is no attempt to adjudicate among theories. The implications of consciousness explanations or theories are assessed with respect to four questions: meaning/purpose/value (if any); AI consciousness; virtual immortality; and survival beyond death. A Landscape of Consciousness, I suggest, offers perspective.
John Leslie's Lecture to Cosmologists, 2013
A LIST OF VARIOUS POSSIBLE ANSWERS (c.) ETERNAL COSMOS (often seen as making God unnecessary) (d.... more A LIST OF VARIOUS POSSIBLE ANSWERS (c.) ETERNAL COSMOS (often seen as making God unnecessary) (d.) CREATION BY QUANTUM PHYSICS (Hartle-Hawking and Vilenkin models) (e.) MULTIPLE UNIVERSES, AND WAYS OF CREATING THEM (including Everett's way) (f.) FINE-TUNING SUGGESTS MANY UNIVERSES and "ANTHROPIC" OBSERVATIONAL SELECTION (intelligent living beings must find themselves in fine-tuned universes) (g.) COULD FINE-TUNING BE A SIGN OF DIVINE SELECTION INSTEAD? (God creates only life-permitting universes) (h.) IF MULTIPLE UNIVERSES, NOT GOD, then MORE REASON TO FEAR A VACUUM INSTABILITY DISASTER ? (Martin Rees on risks of beating cosmic ray collision energies; Steven Weinberg on accelerators reaching "even the Planck energy", far higher) (i.) MAY THE COSMOS EXIST FOR NO REASON AT ALL ? (j.) CAN MIND EXPLAIN THE COSMOS ? .. God's Mind Creates Everything Else? .. God's Mind IS the cosmos? (Spinoza) .. Mind is essential to physical reality? (Andrei Linde; John Wheeler and Paul Davies on delayed-choice double-slit experiments) (k.
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Papers by Robert Lawrence Kuhn
A comprehensive review of consciousness in a taxonomy (organizing framework) and with implications for AI consciousness, virtual Immortality, etc. Diverse explanations or theories of consciousness are arrayed on a roughly physicalist-to-nonphysicalist landscape of essences and mechanisms. Categories: Materialism Theories (philosophical, neurobiological, electromagnetic field, computational and informational, homeostatic and affective, embodied and enactive, relational, representational, language, phylogenetic evolution); Non-Reductive Physicalism; Quantum Theories; Integrated Information Theory; Panpsychisms; Monisms; Dualisms; Idealisms; Anomalous and Altered States Theories; Challenge Theories. There are many subcategories, especially for Materialism Theories. Each explanation is self-described by its adherents, critique is minimal and only for clarification, and there is no attempt to adjudicate among theories. The implications of consciousness explanations or theories are assessed with respect to four questions: meaning/purpose/value (if any); AI consciousness; virtual immortality; and survival beyond death. A Landscape of Consciousness, I suggest, offers perspective.
A comprehensive review of consciousness in a taxonomy (organizing framework) and with implications for AI consciousness, virtual Immortality, etc. Diverse explanations or theories of consciousness are arrayed on a roughly physicalist-to-nonphysicalist landscape of essences and mechanisms. Categories: Materialism Theories (philosophical, neurobiological, electromagnetic field, computational and informational, homeostatic and affective, embodied and enactive, relational, representational, language, phylogenetic evolution); Non-Reductive Physicalism; Quantum Theories; Integrated Information Theory; Panpsychisms; Monisms; Dualisms; Idealisms; Anomalous and Altered States Theories; Challenge Theories. There are many subcategories, especially for Materialism Theories. Each explanation is self-described by its adherents, critique is minimal and only for clarification, and there is no attempt to adjudicate among theories. The implications of consciousness explanations or theories are assessed with respect to four questions: meaning/purpose/value (if any); AI consciousness; virtual immortality; and survival beyond death. A Landscape of Consciousness, I suggest, offers perspective.