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A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead. Read More ›
Cat's Eye Nebula
Photo: Cat's Eye Nebula, by NASA, ESA, HEIC, and Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA).

Darwinian Biologist Resists Learning to Live with Panpsychism

Jerry Coyne is having a hard time understanding why anyone would even consider taking panpsychism seriously. Read More ›
hedgehog
Photo: A hedgehog, by Gibe, CC BY-SA 3.0 <http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/>, via Wikimedia Commons.

Michael Ruse on Purpose: A Conflicted Response

Whatever else might be said of Ruse and his work, like all his books this one is worth having on the shelf. Read More ›
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An Intelligent Design Behind Consciousness — Or an Instinctive One?

Something immaterial can’t have an effect on the material realm, presumably, so how would it be selected as advantageous by Darwinian natural selection? Read More ›
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Post-Modern Science: The Illusion of Consciousness Sees Through Itself   

“It’s quite plausible”  is treated as equivalent to evidence, eliding the question of how exactly we come to “consciously believe” anything. Read More ›

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