Tag: neuroscientists
Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience
Wilder Penfield concluded that free will is not in the brain — it is an immaterial power of the mind.
Octopuses Get Emotional About Pain, Research Shows
The smartest of invertebrates, the octopus, once again prompts us to rethink what we believe to be the origin of intelligence.
Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans
A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind.
Stifle Your Nausea: Ready for a Dish-Grown Brain?
“We have already genetically engineered babies, the march toward three- (or more) parent human embryos, and radical proposals for creating novel family forms.”
Science, Scientism, and Magic
The scientific culture of the 19th and early 20th century produced three great wizards — Charles Darwin, Karl Marx, and Sigmund Freud.