Tag: Integrated information theory
Debating the Legacy of Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield
How much more evidence is necessary to draw the scientific inference that activation of brain networks is insufficient to generate abstract thought?
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.
Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth
Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development.
Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?
Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant.
It’s Becoming Clearer that the Mind Is Not the Brain
The “science of consciousness” not only has no workable materialist theory but it’s unclear what such a theory should look like or explain.