Tag: René Descartes
Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places
If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t.
Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)
The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out.
My Briar Patch: Notes of a Country Doctor
It took me about twenty years after medical school to break free of the intellectual “comfort” afforded by the mechanistic consensus.
Discerning the Shape of a “New Biology”
Purpose and intentionality permeate and in fact define the living state, in contrast to the inanimate.
Artificial General Intelligence: The Poverty of the Stimulus
It doesn’t even matter if the child is blind, deaf, or both. Barring developmental disorders (such as some forms of autism), the child can learn language.