Category: Neuroscience & Mind
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?
Mind, Brain, Soul: What’s the Difference? Find Out at the 2023 Westminster Conference
Sam Harris has said that “You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
Craig, Moreland: Two Philosophers Discuss Aliens and Artificial Intelligence
As an old professor of mine told me in an email recently: “Long live visceral proximity!”
Can Algorithms Designed by Humans Catch Up with the Genius of Biological Systems?
While humans invented algorithms only within the last century, enabling the development of AI, animals exhibit behavioral algorithms that long predate humans.