Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Sleeping and Waking — A Designer’s Gift
Why is sleeping, in which the conscious mind/brain is asleep, categorically more restful and recuperative to the body than merely lying down?
Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?
Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs.
Neuroscience Must Be Dualist, Whether or Not “Science” Allows It
No matter what terminology is chosen, the materialist project always and necessarily amounts to eliminating the mind.
Should Scientists Lie to Us for Our Own Good?
People suspect that we are being conned about a lot of things. How would an accepted, admitted policy of conning us not make it worse?
What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?
Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice.