Tag: Mind Matters
Egnor: Disturbing Questions About Consciousness
Think about this next time you are put under general anesthesia, which I hope neither you nor I will be anytime soon.
The Messy Numbers that Signify Cosmic Design
If you’ve ever tuned a violin, you’ll know that the arrangement of the fine tuners on the tailpiece, once you’re done, looks arbitrary.
Amid Covid, the Deadly Cost of Rule by Experts
Of course it’s the very same assumption at work in the evolution debate, on the part of those who dismiss the suppression of intelligent design dissidents.
Empathy — The Foundation of Human Exceptionalism?
If I gave you 15 seconds you could come up with a pat evolutionary just-so story to account for this, speculating on what reproductive advantage it serves.
An Intelligent Design Behind Consciousness — Or an Instinctive One?
Something immaterial can’t have an effect on the material realm, presumably, so how would it be selected as advantageous by Darwinian natural selection?