Tag: neuroscience
Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?
Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”?
Another Philosopher Says the Unified Self Is an Illusion
In an interview, Julian Baggini asserted that, while consciousness is not an illusion, a unified self that persists through time is.
Philosopher: I’m Neither Me, Myself, Nor I…Yet I Give Interviews!
Theoretical philosopher Thomas Metzinger tells his interviewer “Nobody ever had or was a self. Selves are not part of reality.”
Listen: Into the Mystic with a Neurosurgeon and a Neurotheologian
What parts of the brain light up, and what parts go dormant, when someone is “speaking in tongues”?
The Mind/Brain Problem and the Power of Meditative Prayer
It’s hard to know where the brain ends and the mind begins. How can studying our brains give us insight into our minds?