Category: Neuroscience & Mind
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?
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!”