Tag: mental states
Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done
The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes.
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.
Physicalism Versus the Practice of Science
The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused.
Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor
Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders.
What Is It Like to Be a Spider?
A recent research article from Germany has made quite a splash in the popular media and raises some very interesting questions about animal minds.