Tag: brain
What’s at Stake in the Debate over Darwinism?
We know that Darwinian evolution has a long and sordid history of entanglement with issues of race, racism, and eugenics.
Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”
Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms.
Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind
A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism.
What Explains the “I Suck” Principle?
Writing at Mind Matters, Michael Egnor dissects another illustration of the “I Suck” impulse at work. It’s from his fellow neuroscientist Steven Novella.
Consultation: University of Toronto Psychiatrist Takes on Egnor
Dr. Egnor gently points out that Dr. Ali has stumbled in understanding both what abstract thought means and what happens in certain rare cases of seizure.