Tag: consciousness
Understanding the Mind: A Neuroscientist and a Psychiatrist Walk into a…
What’s most interesting about this discussion is how well the life of the intellect, engaged by science, gets on without guidance from eliminative materialism.
Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness
Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival?
Craig, Moreland: Two Philosophers Discuss Aliens and Artificial Intelligence
As an old professor of mine told me in an email recently: “Long live visceral proximity!”
Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research
The phenomenon is called “paradoxical lucidity” because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes.
In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”
The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any.