Category: Neuroscience & Mind
New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved — It Arose as a Solution
This is teleological thinking. Somewhere Aristotle is smiling.
Watson’s Goof — What We Should Really Fear from AI
It was a telling response, revealing the idiot inside the savant.
In Reversing Stroke Damage, a Stunning Success for “Anti-Science”?
Once again the damned-with-faint-praise field of adult stem cell research seems headed toward significant treatment breakthroughs.
No, Your Brain Isn’t a Three-Pound Meat Computer
AI machines are more a form of mimicry than anything even approaching intelligence.
Is Free Will Just "Your Brain Tricking Itself"?
When scientists propose a really inane explanation for a mundane observation, evolutionary psychology is likely the discipline invoked.