Tag: brain
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.
Egnor Uprising: A Neurosurgon Takes on Materialism
One currently common view, eliminative materialism, says there is nothing to the mind except what goes on in the brain.
Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?
From Dr. Faizal Ali, it looks like another case of Materialism-of-the-Gaps reasoning.
Darwin Double-Crossed: The Design of the Human Nervous System
Our skin and our insides are laced with an invisible, highly sophisticated, selective, neurological netting.