brain Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 1, 2023 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, consciousness spot, David Chalmers, David Papineau, dualism, human nature, information theory, Integrated information theory, Kenneth Miller, King’s College, laboratories, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, New York University, panpsychism, philosophers, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Tel Aviv University, The Human Instinct The Philosopher Wins: There’s No Consciousness Spot in the Brain Denyse O’Leary July 1, 2023 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 After a 25-year search, dualist philosopher David Chalmers won the bet with neuroscientist Christof Koch. Read More ›
brain Type post Author Michael Egnor Date March 8, 2023 CategoriesBiologyChemistryEvolutionMetaphysicsNeuroscience & MindPhysics Tagged , appetite, brain, Brown University, Cartesian dualism, Christianity, consciousness, emotion, evolution, eye, intellect, Kenneth Miller, materialism, memory, mind-brain problem, neuroscience, perception, René Descartes, res cogitans, res extensa, Roman Catholic, sensations, soul, The Human Instinct, Thomas Aquinas Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution Michael Egnor March 8, 2023 Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics 8 Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes. Read More ›
spandrel Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 16, 2018 CategoriesBiologyEvolutionHuman ExceptionalismHuman Origins and AnthropologyScientific Reasoning Tagged , __k-review, "survival of the fittest", Alfred Russel Wallace, architecture, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Darwinian theory, evolution, exaptation, human beings, ID the Future, intelligence, Kenneth Miller, Michael Flannery, Mike Keas, natural selection, podcast, Richard Lewontin, spandrel, Stephen Jay Gould, textbook, The Human Instinct, Wesley Smith Human Exceptionalism — An Evolutionary Dilemma David Klinghoffer July 16, 2018 Biology, Evolution, Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Scientific Reasoning 2 Following Darwin, with an assist from Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Lewontin, Ken Miller proposes that human reason, consciousness, etc. are exaptations, or “spandrels.” Read More ›
kudzu Type post Author Michael Flannery Date May 4, 2018 CategoriesEvolutionHuman Exceptionalism Tagged , __k-review, Alfred Russel Wallace, Ann Gauger, Daniel Dennett, Darwin's Dangerous Idea, Darwin's Doubt, David Berlinski, David Premack, fossil record, intelligent evolution, J. Scott Turner, Jerry Coyne, Kenneth Miller, Neo-Darwinism, Purpose and Desire, Quarterly Review of Biology, Richard Dawkins, Richard Lewontin, spandrels, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, The Human Instinct, Thomas Nagel, Wendell Berry Kudzu Science: Ken Miller’s The Human Instinct Michael Flannery May 4, 2018 Evolution, Human Exceptionalism 11 Miller is one of those “settled science” bullies. Here he sets his sights on essayist Marilynne Robinson. Read More ›
