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What Is Consciousness?

René Descartes in the 17th century created the Hard Problem of consciousness, out of whole cloth. Read More ›

Your Deluded Brain Thinks It’s Conscious!

Nonsense in neuroscience is a deep well. This is just in from Princeton's Michael Graziano. Read More ›
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Photo: Bust of Aristotle, copy of Lysippus (Jastrow (2006)) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved — It Arose as a Solution

This is teleological thinking. Somewhere Aristotle is smiling. Read More ›

Watson’s Goof — What We Should Really Fear from AI

It was a telling response, revealing the idiot inside the savant. Read More ›
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Photo: CT scan of the brain showing a right-hemispheric ischemic stroke, by Lucien Monfils [CC BY-SA 3.0 or GFDL], via Wikimedia Commons.

In Reversing Stroke Damage, a Stunning Success for “Anti-Science”?

Once again the damned-with-faint-praise field of adult stem cell research seems headed toward significant treatment breakthroughs. Read More ›

Is Free Will Just "Your Brain Tricking Itself"?

When scientists propose a really inane explanation for a mundane observation, evolutionary psychology is likely the discipline invoked. Read More ›
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Image: Wilder Penfield in 1913 as a student at Princeton, by Bain News Service [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Pioneering Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield: Why Don’t We Have Intellectual Seizures?

Penfield began his career as a materialist, convinced that the mind was wholly a product of the brain. He finished as an emphatic dualist. Read More ›

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