Tag: awareness
Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi
We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them.
What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness
What about objects? If we want to argue that they have consciousness too, we need to define the term differently from the experiential way we usually do.
Consciousness in Unborn Children: Touching the Third Rail
Leading neuroscientist Christof Koch became a target of Cancel Culture in part because his popular theory of consciousness might threaten the right to abortion.
Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions
Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death.
“Multiple Minds” in Split-Brain Patients?
The scientific obsession with “split minds” is an artifact of our materialist preconceptions about neuroscience.