Tag: hard problem of consciousness

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brains, color, consciousness, Darwinism, determinism, evolution, Free Agents, free will, hard problem of consciousness, intelligent design, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, materialists, Michael Levin, naturalism, neurons, pain, Platonism, purpose, randomness, René Descartes, will}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

_{Daniel Witt
March 5, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 27, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, consciousness, David Chalmers, Delusion, George Musser, hard problem of consciousness, human consciousness, Nautilus, neuroscientists, psychiatric disorders, psychologists}

Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 27, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature. 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, Paul D. MacLean, triune brain theory, Yale University}

Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

_{Denyse O’Leary
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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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 11, 2023

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, Christof Koch, consciousness, crabs, Francis Crick, hard problem of consciousness, John Horgan, Kristin Andrews, materialism, mind, nervous system, neuroscience, panpsychism, philosophers, physiology, theists, York University}

Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 11, 2023

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 31, 2023

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, Christof Koch, Closer to Truth, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, David Chalmers, Donald Hoffman, Erwin Schrödinger, evolution, Evolutionary Game Theory, hard problem of consciousness, numbers, physicalism, physicalists, quantum mechanics, rhubarb, Roger Penrose, Sam Harris, subjective experience, University of California}

Eccentric Theories of Consciousness Are Tolerated; But Why?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 31, 2023

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The strangest imaginable theory, quantum mechanics, has turned out to be the most experimentally reliable. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, baby, birth, children, Christof Koch, consciousness, dreaming, fetuses, hard problem of consciousness, Integrated information theory, neuroscience, newborn, pregnancy, Robert Wright, synaptic connections, Thomas Nagel, Trinity College Dublin, unborn humans}

Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 19, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, aboutness, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, David Papineau, dualism, hard problem of consciousness, Integrated information theory, intentionality, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, physical world, Riccardo Manzotti, self-consciousness, transducer}

It’s Becoming Clearer that the Mind Is Not the Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 19, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The “science of consciousness” not only has no workable materialist theory but it’s unclear what such a theory should look like or explain. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 14, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, China, consciousness, emotions, hard problem of consciousness, human beings, machines, Northern Illinois University, personhood, robots, Russia, sixth sense, soul, Taylor & Francis, The Economist}

All We Need to Do to Give a Robot a Soul Is… (Error 404)

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 14, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In reality, programmers don’t leave souls out of robots because they don’t find them useful; they simply and obviously have no idea how to insert them. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Think, Bruce Greyson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Closer to Truth, consciousness, David Chalmers, death, hard problem of consciousness, life after death, moral choice, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, npr, Scientific American, Standard Model}

Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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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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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 15, 2022

Categories
Arts
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, artists, Blake Lemoine, chatbot, computers, consciousness, COSM 2022, David Chalmers, Discovery Institute, feedback, Google, hard problem of consciousness, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, LaMDA, microchips}

Could Artificial Intelligence Ever Pass the Van Gogh Test?

_{Casey Luskin
November 15, 2022

Arts, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Vincent Van Gogh was crazy but he was talented, and AI can be neither crazy nor talented. Read More ›