Author: Michael Egnor
Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions
Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death.
Debating the Legacy of Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield
How much more evidence is necessary to draw the scientific inference that activation of brain networks is insufficient to generate abstract thought?
We Can Learn About the Mind from Damaged Brains
Now we have solid neuroscience to show that the theologians and philosophers were and are right.
Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places
If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t.
“Multiple Minds” in Split-Brain Patients?
The scientific obsession with “split minds” is an artifact of our materialist preconceptions about neuroscience.