It’s easy to see why people might latch onto the idea of a reptilian brain as an explainer for complex topics. But the neuroscience underpinning it is just not that persuasive.
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Computers are not conscious simply because they are programmed to make decisions; plants are likely in the same position.
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New information suggests that basic assumptions underlying many disciplines may be inadequate or mistaken. How they respond will predict their future.
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Without a subhuman, the human mind has no history. That is a serious blow to any Darwinian materialist project.
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The research mainly shows that there is more than one route to animal intelligence and shaking up Darwin’s tree can be productive.
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The whole Darwinian paradigm of natural selection falls apart when you’re dealing with the human mind. It’s a very different thing.
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We’ve heard countless times that bigger brains evolved to allow for higher intelligence in our hominid ancestors – but not any more.
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The people trying to manufacture human language from ape laughter simply don’t have a better hypothesis. But much seems to depend on pretending otherwise.
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Some of the theories of animal mind are interesting but no one really has any idea how consciousness originated.
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If this is what happens when people think that human consciousness has a purely material evolutionary origin, it is a strong argument for the opposite view.
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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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Carole Hooven discovered that, where the sex binary nature of humans is concerned, the new elite at Harvard and The Lancet thrive on nonsense. But she can’t.
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One effect of the presumption of atheism in science is that all kinds of speculation can be grandfathered as reasonable scientific thinking.
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Human origins papers are often informative and entertaining, as long as we do not confuse them with understanding the realities of human origins and experience.
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Something has changed if the magic word “Evolution!” cannot be used to paper over vast improbabilities and silence dissenters in the way that it has for over a century.
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In the 1895 novel, Wells was working out a Communist-inspired theory of evolution but the 1960 film’s screenwriters chose an anti-war narrative instead.
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Overall, Jonny Thomson’s effort to keep Dennett’s eliminative materialism alive unintentionally points up how fragile it has actually become.
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Life would be so much easier for thinkmags if the mind were simply what the brain does. But wait. No one would produce thinkmags either.
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The dogmatic mindset is bad for science and the fact that the dogma is materialism may make it worse. It certainly doesn’t mitigate the damage in any way.
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