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Michael Egnor: The Neuroscience Evidence for Free Will
You ask a hundred neuroscientists about Libet's work and 95% will say he disproved free will, when he did exactly the opposite
Bad Luck Seldom Persists — But it Never Guarantees Good Luck
Many people embrace the fallacious law of averages in their daily lives when "regression toward the mean" is a more realistic picture
What Did Splitting Human Brains in Half Tell Us About the Mind?
How did split brain study subjects compare things when no part of their brains saw both things?
What’s Behind the World Advertiser Boycott Against X?
Elon Musk’s refusal to censor news has made him enemies in top boardrooms
Is Materialism Slowly Losing Its Death Grip on Science?
If it is, neuroscience discoveries will play a key role, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor tells podcaster Pat Flynn, in a recent interview
Researcher: AI Can’t Be Conscious Because It Is Not Alive
Consciousness is not computation. Without the ability to experience events from one phase to the next (sentience), we could not really be conscious
What the Luck? How Luck Matters to Olympic and Major League Wins
One way to think about the relative importance of skill and luck is to consider the consistency of the outcomes
Of course cats grieve! But how to research it …?
The challenge is separating the cat’s feelings from those of the human interpreter
The Difference Smartphones Make to People With Hearing Loss
Engineering is not an arm-chair exercise. Engineers mut get their prototypes out in the field where people they don't know will use them in ways they can't imagine
When materialist assumptions about the mind begin to sound dated…
A 2017 profile of Roger Penrose and his consciousness theory was penned before slow changes and major tumults rocked the discipline — and it shows
Not Suffering But Fighting: Dementia as a New Beginning
Writers, artists, and many others who must fight the late-life disorder are finding new resources to do so
Alien: Covenant (2017): A Story Driven by Stupidity, Coincidence
Nothing seems to happen as the natural result of a character’s choices, consistent with personality and motive
When Deep Forgetfulness Was a Death Sentence…
Memory care specialist Stephen Post reminds us of that dark but recent era, in conversation with Michael Egnor
“Plant Philosophy” Denigrates Human Uniqueness
Much contemporary advocacy is obsessed with deconstructing human exceptionalism
Dementia: New insights in caring for deeply forgetful people
Dr. Stephen Post, an expert in memory disorders, talks to neurosurgeon Michael Egnor about when and how people suddenly remember again
Programmer: AI could certainly become conscious
From Casper Wilstrup's perspective, we can't demonstrate that anything is NOT conscious so creating conscious AI is simply a matter of using the scientific method
Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”
When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage
Unborn Child Learns the Accents, Rhythms of Mom’s Native Language
There is, however, a dark, little-told tale about how we learned much of what we know about unborn children today