Tag: mind
Self-Referential Absurdity in a Theory of Consciousness
Leonhard Euler was known to work out complex derivations in his head while blind. Of what possible use was this ability for survival?
Mind, Brain, Soul: What’s the Difference? Find Out at the 2023 Westminster Conference
Sam Harris has said that “You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
In Some Science Contexts, “Emergence” Really Means “We Don’t Know How”
The word often permits the improbable to be considered probable for the purposes of sounding like science without providing any.
What Is Primary: Mind or Matter?
The standard narrative tells a story of the increasing merit of materialistic causes. All of this allegedly occurs in a series of inevitable stages.
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.