Tag: fMRI
Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions
Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death.
Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain
A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once.
A Quarter of Comatose Patients May Be Aware But Unable to Communicate
“Covertly” means that the patients were not able to respond directly but brain activity showed that they understood what was asked of them.
The Brain Prosperity Gospel: Can “Neurotheology” Be Real Science?
Neurotheology is likely to become just another materialist fad in which the human rational and spiritual soul is reduced to evolved meat.
Can LSD Help Us Understand the Mind–Brain Relationship?
Aldous Huxley noted that LSD “lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life.”