Tag: neuroscience
Thanks for the Memory
Protein chemist Doug Axe responds in characteristically incisive fashion to a typical silly instance of science reporting.
What Is Matter? The Materialist Perspective
Materialism isn’t really a metaphysical theory. It’s just a mistake. It’s a woefully inadequate understanding of nature.
Neuroscientist Michael Egnor on Thomas Aquinas and “A Map of the Soul”
Patients missing large parts of their brain tissue can lead normal lives because the material, the tissue, is not all there is to us.
Scientific Anti-Humanism Is Being Refuted by Science Itself
Darwin taught that life is the product of blind, meaningless, purposeless churning — making all life, including human, hardly more special or dignified than cosmic refuse.
Is Jodi Arias a Man-Eating Tiger?
Any system of justice that would not meaningfully distinguish between man and beast is not worthy of the name.