Tag: mind
Science and Faith: Stephen Meyer on the Marc Bernier Show
At one point Bernier asks Meyer about the statement, “The heart cannot exalt what the mind rejects.”
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.”
Trying to Disprove Free Will Shows that Materialism Doesn’t Work
The fact that nature is not predetermined in detail has been shown quite convincingly by the experimental confirmation of Bell’s theorem in quantum mechanics.
If IQ Is Inherited, Is the Intellect Simply Material?
The widely accepted heritability of IQ — between 57 percent and 80 percent in twin studies — is strong evidence for the materiality of the intellect.
Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans
A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind.