Tag: neurons
The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind
If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain.
“Emergence” and the Soul
Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind.
Animal Researchers Should Be Proud
We are often awed at the medical miracles that save so many of our lives and alleviate unquantifiable levels of human suffering.
Bruce Buff and Robert Spitzer on All Hallows’ Eve — Materialism as Reality-Denial
“Is the soul real? Or is it just an old construct used to explain what a scientifically illiterate society could not?”
Embracing Uncertainty: Evolution’s Latest Dodge
Faced with conflicting genetic evidence, Darwinians reach for a new “uncertainty principle” borrowed from physics.