Category: Neuroscience & Mind
Pioneering Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield: Why Don’t We Have Intellectual Seizures?
Penfield began his career as a materialist, convinced that the mind was wholly a product of the brain. He finished as an emphatic dualist.
Your Personality Uploaded to a Robot Wouldn’t Be “You”
Transhumanism is a materialistic religion that seeks to attain the comforts provided by faith through belief in technology as savior.
Does Intelligence Depend on a Specific Type of Brain?
Animal minds can be highly developed yet quite different from each other.
Can You Perceive a Star That’s No Longer There?
The only reason we perceive that it still exists is that the light from it takes a long time to reach us.
At the Intersection of Phrenology and Public Policy
A recent PNAS study is the latest iteration of dial-a-science: just call and order science to fit your favored narrative.