Egnor thinks that the strongest evidence that the mind is not merely the brain comes from epilepsy and split brain research.
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Some feats of apparent intelligence point to information sources that did not likely just evolve over time among the life forms.
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At his blog, scientist and clergyman Kirk Durston takes on theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who denies free will.
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She then blows up her own case by dragging Aristotle into it. Chimpanzees are NOT showing what Aristotle meant by reason.
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We seem a long way now from the once-dominant science view of eliminative materialism in which even human consciousness was not considered real.
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All these intellectual worthies choose to miss the point: No life form other than humans writes books, reviews books, or contemplates any of the issues raised.
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We can learn a lot from fossil footprints — who went where, when, and why — that static artifacts don’t tell us by themselves.
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There seems less interest today in maintaining a “subhuman” status for our Neanderthal ancestors. It’s good if that sort of thing makes people uncomfortable.
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Science is incompatible with the onslaught of post-modernism. A major rift in biology may be looming straight ahead.
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The researchers are not really under any pressure to resolve the consciousness conundrum; just to come up with new (materialist) theories about it.
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This is yet another blow to the current effort to claim that humans are not sex binary.
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The reason medical researchers now take NDEs seriously is a growing body of evidence that can’t just be tossed off with a simple explanation.
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This stuff is likely harmless except that a troubling element is introduced if the imagined aliens are supposed to be evidence of our own insignificance.
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I was hardly prepared for what Bolloré and Bonnassies reveal about efforts to discredit the idea of a beginning to the universe — by any means necessary.
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Despite a swamp of scandals, the focus of discussion seems to be getting the public to trust again, not reform of the system.
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Materialists have long sought to show that Neanderthals were less mentally evolved than modern humans but that doesn’t seem evident.
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New technologies enable ideas and abilities that are latent in human beings to take form. Thus claims about the evolution of consciousness are problematic.
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But today, the serious problem is not modernism and scientism, which are fading. It is post-modernism, which rejects reason and evidence.
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Krylov also calls out the practices of choosing citations on the basis of social justice merit instead of relevance and of censoring awkward findings.
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The decline is most likely occurring because younger people are simply paying less attention to legacy media. They don’t trust what they hardly know.
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