Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Egnor: A Couple of Problems with Ape “Spirituality”
The wish to demote, punish, and degrade ourselves this way, a neurosis special to our modern culture, is itself, ironically, a tribute to human exceptionalism.
How Did Religion “Evolve”?
It’s telling that one kind of evolution always seems to be missing from these “theories” about the evolutionary origins of religion.
Richards: False Prophecies of a Robotic Future Are Based on a False Darwinian Premise
The rejoinder to this way of thinking, which Jay Richards expresses with wonderful concision, is that humans possess a unique capacity forever setting us apart from machines.
MIT’s Rizwan Virk on Simulation Theory, AKA Intelligent Design
Egnor: “If we are living in a computer simulation, we couldn’t think to ask the question.”
Dr. Egnor on Free Will and the “Alien Hand”
A reader asked whether this disproves the unity and freedom of the will. It appears that the patient wills two things simultaneously: getting dressed and getting undressed.