Tag: Stony Brook University
Mind, Brain, Soul: What’s the Difference? Find Out at the 2023 Westminster Conference
Sam Harris has said that “You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.”
Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research
The phenomenon is called “paradoxical lucidity” because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes.
Free Will: What Are the Reasons to Believe in It?
Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real.
Conference to Explore Cosmic Mind and Divine Action
In the first plenary, Stephen Meyer will argue for the existence of an intelligent and transcendent God who has also acted in the course of cosmic history.
Physicist Explains: Why Scientists Play It Safe
On evolution and other subjects, this promotes a stale conservatism, well suited to defending orthodoxies.