It’s supposed to be a given that machines or brain organoids might be conscious despite not knowing what that is or how it works — but preborn children can’t be…
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Part of the reason we don’t know exactly how anesthesia works is surely that we do not know what consciousness is (there are at least 325 theories out there).
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Neurologist Brian Edlow hopes that brain–computer interface technology like Neuralink will help researchers communicate with covertly conscious people.
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Where exactly is a popular song located? It lives in memory, human and recorded, in many forms. But it occupies no spatial location.
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor agrees; the image of storing and erasing memories is popular due to computer technology but not relevant to memory.
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Neuroplasticity is a very interesting and important area of research. But the careless and casual attribution of unexpected mental states to it is junk science.
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Unfortunately, some of them spend a lot of time trying to discredit people who are willing to look at these questions.
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The simpler explanation, he says, is that percepts, perceptions travel through axons. Conceptions don’t travel through axons because they’re not material.
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A misguided article in Popular Mechanics gave neurosurgeon Michael Egnor a chance to shed light on a unique fact about people with split brains here.
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People are entitled to their own definitions of materialism, of course. But once we focus on a standard one, we see that it is false to the reality of the human mind.
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Serious research on terminal lucidity will immensely damage the sort of materialism that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker champions.
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Shermer told Mind Matters News after the event that he would bump up his credence in the existence of souls from 1% to 2% out of 99%.
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He sees words like “mind” and “soul” as just linguistic placeholders until we have a fully material explanation for how we function.
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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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Egnor says there is massive evidence that the mind is not simply what the brain does but Shermer insists that it is all unexplained natural phenomena.
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The two disciplines of neuroscience and philosophy must work together to better understand what it means to be conscious, to choose, and to be human.
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Green argues for humility because, while neuroscience is powerful and rapidly advancing, it may never explain the full reality of the human person.
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Near-death experiences are challenging — not science — but the materialist presumption that has dominated for many decades in science.
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The problem with neuroscience today, Dr. Green says, isn’t lack of data, but lack of a unifying theory.
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Twenty years ago, materialism was expected to explain everything; now, more people are looking for broader picture answers.
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