Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind
A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism.
Moreland, Witt: Not “All Body,” but Not “All Spirit” Either
The materialist idea that you are “all body” — nothing but matter — is hardly more dangerous than the opposite idea, that you are “all spirit.”
What Explains the “I Suck” Principle?
Writing at Mind Matters, Michael Egnor dissects another illustration of the “I Suck” impulse at work. It’s from his fellow neuroscientist Steven Novella.
Consultation: University of Toronto Psychiatrist Takes on Egnor
Dr. Egnor gently points out that Dr. Ali has stumbled in understanding both what abstract thought means and what happens in certain rare cases of seizure.
Egnor Uprising: A Neurosurgon Takes on Materialism
One currently common view, eliminative materialism, says there is nothing to the mind except what goes on in the brain.
