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Date
March 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
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, brain, causation, consciousness, feelings, logic, mind, right, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, sensations, soul, thinking, thoughts, wrong}

Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

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March 17, 2024

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Keith Ward explains how we can know that the mind is not simply what the brain does. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 15, 2024

Categories
Fine-tuning
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Anthropic Principle, Christof Koch, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, human consciousness, Integrated information theory, James Tour, natural selection, neuroscience, neuroscientists, panpsychism, philosophers, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, scientists, Teilhard de Chardin, third rail}

Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness

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March 15, 2024

Fine-tuning, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 12, 2024

Categories
Biology
Cosmology
Genetics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
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, Adam Frank, Big Bang, Big Think, chatbot, consciousness, cosmos, Dartmouth College, developmental biology, human experience, human mind, information, knowledge, Marcelo Gleiser, materialism, molecular evolution, neuroscience, universe, University of Rochester}

“Lived Experience” Is Science’s Blind Spot

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March 12, 2024

Biology, Cosmology, Genetics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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They are right about the dead ends. But is it true that the dead ends result merely from ignoring human experience? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 3, 2024

Categories
Environment & Climate
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstraction, animals, archaeologists, chimpanzees, crows, dolphins, hands, Harvard University, life forms, monkeys, octopuses, Oxford University, sea urchins, tools}

War on Human Exceptionalism Turns to Tool Use

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March 3, 2024

Environment & Climate, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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As the academic war on human exceptionalism motors on, researchers’ thinking sometimes shorts out — and they don’t even notice. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain damage, chess, computer, knowledge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, memories, memory, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, philosophers}

Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain; Here’s Why

_{Michael Egnor
February 29, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the “storage” of non-physical entities. Philosophers like to call that a "category error." Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 26, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bacteria, blood vessels, body heat, body temperature, brain, catalysis, enzymes, evolution, heat, infection, inflammation, intelligent design, muscles, neurons, skin, temperature, thermostats, white blood cells}

In Its Design, the Body’s Thermostat Resembles Human Technology

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 26, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The existence of thermostatic control of our body temperature is not at all surprising supposing life to be the product of a purposeful engineer. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 22, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, behavior, belief, brains, choice, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, faith, free will, human beings, Jerry Coyne, Ludwig Wittgenstein, materialists, meaning, philosophers, physiology, Politics, rain, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris}

Reply to Free Will Deniers: Show Me

_{Michael Egnor
February 22, 2024

Bioethics, Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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If you carelessly dent a genuine free will denier’s car in a parking lot, he wouldn’t hold you responsible any more than he’d hold your car responsible. Read More ›

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Date
February 17, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, ants, bees, communication, entomologists, Eric Cassell, Europe, exoskeleton, intelligence, pheromones, space exploration, Stanford University, termites, wasps}

Ants “Think” Differently from Humans

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February 17, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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There are some 20 quadrillion ants living in the world today. All species of ants are social; there are no known solitary ants. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 15, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, Dogs, Duke University, hard problem of consciousness, Max Tegmark, MIT, neuroscience, New York City, Yale University}

Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

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February 15, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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To contemplate consciousness is, as professor of religion Greg Peterson put it, like looking into and out of a window at the same time. Read More ›

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Date
February 11, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Anthony Esolen, Arabic, artificial intelligence, books, brains, Chinese, Discover Magazine, editors, English, evolution, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, languages, linguists, quantum physics, Scientific American, software, Spanish, writers}