Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Gilder on Surprise, Creativity, and Human Exceptionalism
It’s strikes me that this is a difference between design and Darwinian thinking.
Scientific American: Prevention Can Benefit Any Suicidal Person
My last hospice patient, Bob, told me that after some months of just wanting to be dead, that he had “come out of the fog.”
In a Weekend Doubleheader, Gilder Warns of Silicon Valley and the Planetary Zoo
Reducing the stature and dignity of human beings to that of animals is the whole project of Darwinism or materialism, whatever you want to call it, in a nutshell.
Egnor Versus Shallit: Can Brains Learn?
Egnor he nails it by noting that Shallit, not uniquely, falls victim to the mereological fallacy.
Michael Egnor on Animal Generosity
The failure to understand the gulf that separates humans from animals, and humans from machines, is a source of confusion to rival almost any other.