The article, unfortunately, doesn’t address the way the panic around COVID leaned heavily on claims about “the science” — which likely discredited science.
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Science is as dependent on the concept of public truth as the great religions are. Thus, when private truth rapidly gains power, it is just as vulnerable.
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One challenge is that many people know only the materialist dismissals, not the evidence that is ignored or dismissed.
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Berger’s confidence about homo Naledi’s intelligence rankles colleagues but he is as entitled to a documentary for his case as they are to oppose it.
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“Penrose consciousness,” in Sheldon’s view, escapes the paradoxes of non-computable problems that plague the trendy Universal Turing Machine model of the brain.
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How a quantum theory of consciousness will work out is anyone’s guess but here’s a prediction: It won’t help the cause of materialism much.
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Given the growing power of private truth, the future of science which, like religion, represents public truth is more uncertain than some expect.
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Dr. Schwartz thinks that mindfulness research and practice has played a role in shaking up the idea that the mind is simply what the brain does.
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Animal languages deal in emotions and sometimes in basic information but not in ideas. Humans can understand them to the extent that we can follow the emotions.
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What’s becoming clear is that, while dementia itself may not be preventable, its severity may potentially be mitigated by timely health care interventions.
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It won’t be long before serious proposals are floated in the United States for government to fund legacy media, which would make them PR for government.
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This “chat” among neurons, glia, and microbes could be important for research into the digestive system in relation to mood disorders, anxiety, and depression.
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The excruciating difficulty for peer review is Goodhart’s Law: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Bias makes it all worse.
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Although it doesn’t emerge in this interview, Strawson is a panpsychist; thus he can maintain a materialist position and still argue that consciousness is real.
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Sutter would be better off to worry more when things are called pseudoscience because, despite evidence in their favor, they contradict fashionable thinking.
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To insist that the mind is not real and can’t be constrained amounts to taking a philosophical position, not one based on science. There is no relevant science.
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In a world of no truth but multiple perspectives, what does plagiarism even mean?
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In the human sense, cats neither love nor hate neither because for us these emotions are mixed up with the indelible effects of human reason.
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It’s not clear that the case for global government, such as it is, needs an evolution myth; more likely, the evolution proponents just want in on the game.
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Our remote ancestors were forging a system for writing down what they knew thousands of years before what we think of as history.
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