Tag: body
Neuroscientist Vows: We’ll Nail Consciousness Yet!
Anil Seth, proponent of the “hallucination” theory of consciousness, vows that researchers will find that consciousness spot or circuit in the brain.
Coming Soon: The Ultimate Defense of Substance Dualism
J. P. Moreland has written prolifically on the soul and the mind/body issue in the past. In this great volume, his views are cogently articulated and defended.
Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”
Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature.
If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?
The widely accepted heritability of IQ — between 57 percent and 80 percent in twin studies — is strong evidence for the materiality of the intellect.
Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?
The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body?