Tag: neuroscience
Michael Egnor: How Experiments Show that the Mind Is More than the Brain
Oddities of neuroscience that indicate that there is more going on in the brain than mere chemistry.
Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”
Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms.
Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma
What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme.
Jay Richards Responds to Michael Egnor on Cloning
Cloning a human being is a terrifying prospect, from a moral perspective, and seems inevitable.
Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind
A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism.