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Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

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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Scientists Examining Consciousness — Here’s the Problem

Many researchers do like to write about consciousness and here are two recent contributions to the accessible literature. Read More ›
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Consciousness, a Hall of Mirrors, Baffles Scientists

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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Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

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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Eccentric Theories of Consciousness Are Tolerated; But Why?

The strangest imaginable theory, quantum mechanics, has turned out to be the most experimentally reliable. Read More ›
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Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

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

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

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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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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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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