Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Accounts from “After Death” Defeat Materialist Contentions About the Soul
Ahead of the Friday theatrical release, our colleague Andrew McDiarmid talked with Dr. Jeffrey Long, a cancer doctor who appears in the film.
A Scholarly Riposte to Pop Free Will Denialism
Denial of free will is a quick route to totalitarianism. If you can’t be guilty because you can’t choose, you can’t be innocent either.
Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth
Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development.
My Question for P. Z. Myers: How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?
Human consciousness entails a unique ability to think abstractly — to reason, to think logically, to use language, to do mathematics, to exercise free will.
The Human Mind Has No History
There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history.