The brain can be modeled as a computer, but that does not mean that thought is computation. AI is human intelligence, disguised and leveraged by computation.
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The soul can seem a bit of a mystery because the popular idea of the soul, as a sort of “ghost” is not the traditional philosophical (or Christian) one.
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The fact that seizures never result in abstract reasoning implies our reason is not a material power of the body but an immaterial power of the spiritual soul.
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Consciousness is like contact lenses. It is the means by which we experience, not what we experience. Thus we can’t “find” it in the brain.
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In addition to the massive evidence from neuroscience that the intellect is an immaterial power of the mind, simple logic points to the same truth.
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The demotion of the prefrontal cortex in consciousness is remarkable in the light of other researchers’ view that it is practically what makes us human.
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While none of this research is decisive, the materialist paradigm is challenged by awareness in PVS. The dualist perspective better fits the evidence.
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It’s a lot to ask of one type of cell, however unique, that it be what makes humans more intelligent than chimpanzees and that it create language.
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Insisting that there is no free will amounts to declaring “I’m a meat robot, so take seriously what I’m saying.” That’s self-refuting nonsense, Dr. Egnor says.
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If it takes a hundred scientists to map a cubic millimetre of a mouse’s brain, even the material world — never mind the immaterial world of the mind — is not likely to have a simple explanation.
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Whether they continue to push the boundary, or someone else does, they can only bring up so many unaccounted-for facts before it’s time for a revolution.
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While it is quite true that the human brain is very large by animal standards, there is no simple one-on-one relationship between brain size and intelligence.
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Real-world research shows the remarkable resilience of damaged brains housing single minds. Our brains are full of complexities and exceptions to rules.
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Of his 55,000 brain stimulations that “activated complex networks,” not one generated abstract thought — implying that it is not a “product” of the brain.
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A recent research paper looks at the way minds work with what’s available, something I often encounter in my practice as a neurosurgeon.
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Researchers have used the usually avoided term “directed evolution” — which may suggest design — to account for the worm’s tiny, complex brain.
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The worm C. elegans can learn, using both associative and non-associative learning, despite having a brain of less than 400 neurons.
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If examples of terminal and paradoxical lucidity in old age are any guide, we should not conclude that children must lack consciousness before a given stage.
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Is science about following the evidence or about confirming a materialist ideology about science? This is the big neuroscience question of our century.
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The higher human ability to think abstractly — to reason and will freely — are not physical abilities and do not come from the brain.
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