As Kuhn marvels, Josephson reasons his way to precisely the sorts of conclusions generally accepted in major world religions.
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As Michael Egnor told Pat Flynn, research of this sort — where split brains provide united perceptions — is an unacknowledged problem for materialism.
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The claim that we will find a materialist explanation some day, no date specified, means that we never reckon with failure to do so.
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Materialism is a totalistic claim. If the human mind is not simply the physical processes of the brain, with no remainder, then materialism is disproven.
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Five-year-olds instinctively know that you shouldn’t stack books on top of a cake, even if they might try it just to see what happens.
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In terms of the nature of the obstacles faced, is conscious AI a problem more like Pluto tourism or time travel? Why is this question not raised more often?
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Paulson’s Penrose profile is written as if materialism is going to prevail but that seems much less likely now than it perhaps did in 2017.
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Computers only compute. Better computer imitation of non-computational thinking is not a step on a road to non-computational thinking as a reality.
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One big change is that the role of social isolation in hastening the progress of the disease is becoming clearer — and thus more easily avoided.
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With humans, it is likely more complex but identifying the neural correlates of expectation may help produce more effective pain relief in humans and animals.
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But what if computers that think like people are a hard ceiling, like time travel — because not all thinking is 1’s and 0’s…?
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Parnia says he is not religious. Rather, his views are the outcome of clinical experience in a field where doctors have literally never gone before.
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Plant philosophy seeks to change the definitional understandings of “intelligence” to elevate the moral status of plants relative to humans.
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Increasing longevity and widespread early diagnosis will mean that delaying the progress of the disease becomes very important over the next few decades.
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Dr. Post considers it implausible that “rementia,” the sudden, brief return of a personal identity, can be explained purely in material brain terms.
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The reason Casper Wilstrup is so sure is that he has adopted panpsychism — the view that everything participates in consciousness.
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Although Narayanan frowns on pro-lifers using information to show the individual humanity of the unborn child, that’s clearly where the science points.
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The separateness and intellectual inferiority of Neanderthal man was at one time constantly emphasized but the evidence doesn’t support it.
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A little-reported 2021 case study published in Neurology Clinical Practice shows how resilient the human brain can be. A 29-year-old woman, CB, with no neurological or psychiatric history had a stroke, possibly due to medication issues. The damage was serious enough that a decision was made, with her consent, to remove almost all of the right side of her brain (hemispherectomy). As the study authors put it, “only a small disconnected right occipital pole was retained.” What impact would that have on her mind? The right hemisphere of the brain is thought by neuroscientists to play a specific role in “nonverbal” cognitive abilities. From Simply Psychology, we learn, Left hemisphere function The left hemisphere controls the right-hand side of the Read More ›
As a medical scientist, he looks at how new findings will help develop new treatments to revive people now considered hopeless and restore brain damage.
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