Category: Medicine
Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem
Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature.
This Close: Almost Embracing Sanctity of Life
It is always good to see someone wrestling with truth. Sonia Sodha is on the way to an important understanding.
John West: How C. S. Lewis Anticipated Our Experience of Scientism
I was shocked during Covid by the way healthy respect for science shaded rapidly into cowering submission and unquestioning scientistic worship of authority.
What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?
A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be.
Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain
A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once.