CategoryNeuroscience
Neuroscience Must Be Dualist, Whether or Not “Science” Allows It
Researchers: Human Cerebellum Aids Higher Cognitive Functions
At one time, the cerebellum was thought to facilitate only functions like movement. But recent research shows that it’s more complex
Night Shift: The Brain’s Extraordinary Work While Asleep
Lie down, close your eyes, lose consciousness, and the brain undertakes the heavy lifting that sleep demands.
Study: Babies Start Learning Their Home Language Before Birth
Neuroscience researchers found that newborns responded better to a folk tale in French than in Spanish or English — when French was their mothers’ native language
Claim: What consciousness studies needs is more Darwinism
The Darwinian view of the evolution of the human mind is, at best, a ladder with no upper rungs
Our Brains Don’t Really Rewire, Neuroscientists Caution
Professors Tamar Makin (Cambridge) and John Krakauer (Johns Hopkins) say that when the brain adapts to losses, it uses “latent capacities,” not new ones
Will Neuroscience Ever Accommodate Immaterial Consciousness?
Joseph Green offers an informative account in Minding the Brain of the current state of neuroscience. What we now know is remarkable — but so is what we don’t
Will the Octopus Ever Find Its Way Into a Tidy Evolutionary Tree?
New finds in genetics and neuroscience both shed light and deepen the puzzle of the almost "alien" species
The Scientific Evidence for Near-Death-Experiences
A conversation with Dr. Gary Habermas on the plausibility and evidence of near-death-experiences.Is there strong scientific evidence for near-death experiences, the subject of the new film After Death? On an episode of ID the Future, I spoke with Dr. Gary Habermas about his chapter evaluating the evidence for near-death cases in the recent book Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science. As Dr. Habermas explains, most near-death accounts contain both objective and subjective elements. Personal testimony about other realms can’t be independently corroborated, but objective evidence rooted in this world can be confirmed and evaluated. “I can’t verify heavenly discussions or heavenly sites,” says Habermas, “so the kind of NDE data I’m talking about virtually always occur on this earth in normal kinds of situations, like parking lots or in your Read More ›
New Movie Investigates Near-Death Experiences
What happens after we die? The new movie "After Death," out today, investigates near-death experiences and the possibility of the afterlife.
Neuroscience Has Never Provided Much Evidence for Materialism
In a chapter of the new book, Minding the Brain, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor points out that many great neuroscientists were non-materialists
Modern Neuroscience Does NOT Disprove Free Will
In a chapter of Minding the Brain (2023), Cristi L. S. Cooper looks at the current state of neuroscience research on free will
In Neuroscience Flap, Science Media Tackle “Pseudoscience” Claim
As the leading theory of consciousness is tarred by neuroscientists as “pseudoscience,” science media struggle to outline just WHAT science is
Did “Evolution” Wire Human Brains to “Act Like Supercomputers”?
In making such a claim, psychology researchers may have got more than they bargained for
Leading Consciousness Theory Slammed as “Pseudoscience.” Huh?
Integrated Information Theory’s panpsychist leanings are the 124 neuroscientist critics’ real target
Split Mind: The Strangest Theory in Neuroscience?
The idea that we might all have separate, undetected consciousnesses in each half of our brain supports materialism but there’s little evidence for it
The Left and Right Brain Both Want Pop Science Media to Chill
Neuroscience is not an especially rewarding field for the pursuit of dogma
Does Left Brain-Only Thinking Impoverish Our Mental World? How?
A discussion of the left brain vs the right brain that avoids pop science can set us thinking, as psychiatrist McGilchrist and neurologist Dirckx show