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The Philosopher Wins: There’s No Consciousness Spot in the Brain

After a 25-year search, dualist philosopher David Chalmers won the bet with neuroscientist Christof Koch. Read More ›
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The Tower of Babel, by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, via Wikimedia Commons.

Science After Babel: An Exercise in Self-Criticism

Until the day before yesterday, the imperial architects of the scientific revolution were well satisfied and sleek as seals. Read More ›
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Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Read More ›
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Brain Scientist: Consciousness Didn’t Evolve; It Creates Evolution

Donald Hoffman says that even the Big Bang must be understood in a universe where consciousness is fundamental. Read More ›
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Sabine Hossenfelder, Taking on Consciousness, Tackles Panpsychism

She wants to apologize to all carrots who are watching her video — but carrots are not watching and that’s the point. Read More ›
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Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Pass the Van Gogh Test?

Vincent Van Gogh was crazy but he was talented, and AI can be neither crazy nor talented. Read More ›
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Is Consciousness a “Controlled Brain Hallucination”?

Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong. Read More ›
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Did Minimal Consciousness Drive the Cambrian Explosion?

Eva Jablonka’s team makes the daring case, repurposing Hungarian chemist Tibor Gánti’s origin of life studies. Read More ›
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Berlinski Banters Entertainingly with ID-Friendly Muslims

Dr. Berlinski questions evolutionary understandings of language and expresses doubt as to what reproductive benefit could have accrued to “the first guy to master the Greek subjunctive.” Read More ›
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Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer” 

Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms. Read More ›

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