Tag: abstract thought
Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?
From Dr. Faizal Ali, it looks like another case of Materialism-of-the-Gaps reasoning.
Science Uprising — Michael Egnor Responds to a (Thoughtful) Critic
“Although higher thought is not localizable to one region of the brain, it may be distributed to neurons throughout the brain.”
More on Animals and Their “Reasoning”
Whether your dog can philosophize is not a puzzle you need to look to the Oxford English Dictionary to resolve.
Why Human Reason Didn’t “Evolve”
Egnor: “Think of the irony: a professor of philosophy, who is paid only to reason, uses reason to argue against reason. Welcome to the bowels of atheist metaphysics.”
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.