Tag: Consciousness studies

A 3D rendering of a human brain with a missing puzzle piece, symbolizing mental health, memory loss, or a search for solutions.

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Michael Egnor
Date
May 4, 2025

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Cartesian dualism, Consciousness studies, Hydranencephaly, Pineal gland, Prefrontal cortex, Rene Descartes}

Why Much Current Consciousness Research Is a Fool’s Errand

_{The inability to even define consciousness with clarity is emblematic of the conceptual mess that modern neuroscience has become} _{Michael Egnor
May 4, 2025

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

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. Read More ›

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
March 12, 2025

Categorized
Free will, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Alan J. McComas, Benjamin Libet (1916–2007), Consciousness studies, Cristi L. S. Cooper, Featured, Reductionism in neuroscience}

Consciousness: Reductionism’s Final Hill — the One To Die On?

_{The reductionist has no more information than anyone else about the origin of human consciousness and isn’t making any better sense of the evidence we do have} _{Denyse O'Leary
March 12, 2025

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Free will, Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

Is science about following the evidence or about confirming a materialist ideology about science? This is the big neuroscience question of our century. Read More ›

Green grass and blue sky with white clouds

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
January 12, 2025

Categorized
Panpsychism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Science

Tagged
Consciousness studies, Erik Hoel, Panpsychism, Science as incomplete, World Behind the World (Simon & Schuster 2023)}

Is Science in Our Frame of Reality Inevitably Incomplete?

_{It’s becoming increasingly obvious that human consciousness isn’t a material phenomenon like any other; it has one foot in time and another in eternity} _{Denyse O'Leary
January 12, 2025

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Panpsychism, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Science}

Efforts to jam both feet into time have gone nowhere and are likely to continue to do so. Read More ›

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News
Date
January 19, 2024

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
Christof Koch, Consciousness studies, Integrated Information Theory (IIT), Johannes Kleiner, Mariana Lenharo}

Consciousness Wars Still Simmer, Despite Peacekeeping Efforts

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January 19, 2024

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Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

If neuroscientists are looking fruitlessly for a material basis for the human mind, progress may always be measured in conflicts, not insights. Read More ›