Tag: neuroscience
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.
What Explains the “I Suck” Principle?
Writing at Mind Matters, Michael Egnor dissects another illustration of the “I Suck” impulse at work. It’s from his fellow neuroscientist Steven Novella.
Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?
From Dr. Faizal Ali, it looks like another case of Materialism-of-the-Gaps reasoning.
Science Uprising — Michael Egnor Responds to a (Thoughtful) Critic
“Although higher thought is not localizable to one region of the brain, it may be distributed to neurons throughout the brain.”
How Research on OCD Challenges Materialism
How does one “convince” a robot of anything, when changing your mind about an issue implies free will, which materialists are impelled to deny?