Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Science Is Self-Correcting? Time for a Reality Check
In the wake of the Stanford scandal, the reasons why science often ISN’T self-correcting are attracting much more attention.
Is Life Just Chemistry, or Chemistry Plus Information?
Theoretical biologist Marcello Barbieri finds that many biologists see information in life forms as something that “does not really belong to science.”
Barbie’s Subtle Critique of Transhumanism?
The transhumanists want to escape the body into a dreamlike utopia. It will be fully artificial and completely boring.
Understanding the Mind: A Neuroscientist and a Psychiatrist Walk into a…
What’s most interesting about this discussion is how well the life of the intellect, engaged by science, gets on without guidance from eliminative materialism.
Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness
Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival?