Tag: David Chalmers
Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem
Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature.
What 1,000+ Brain Surgeries Taught About the Mind
Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thought.
What Is Pseudoscience? A Philosopher Tries to Figure It Out
One is tempted to wonder whether “room for disagreement” is a polite term for Not Yet Cancelled.
Is Darwinian Philosopher Daniel Dennett the End of an Era?
Dennett’s image of the human mind as a user-illusion was very fashionable but it never made any sense.
Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness
Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain.