Tag: Patrick Haggard

Colorful wooden puzzle brain model. Neurodiversity concept, human mind complexity. Creativity, brainstorming and emotional intelligence.

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Denyse O'Leary
Date
July 3, 2024

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

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Identity theory, Michael Egnor on identity theory, Mind vs. brain, Patrick Haggard, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)}

Neuroscientist: The Mind Is Just the Brain

_{He cites studies using transcranial magnetic stimulation, which caused subjects to see flashing lights} _{Denyse O'Leary
July 3, 2024

Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

The fatal flaw in identity theory, as his view is called, is that there is no point of contact between the laws of logic and those of electrochemistry. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor
Date
October 26, 2020

Categorized
Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind

Tagged
appetites, Benjamin Libet, Featured, free will, functional MRI (fMRI), Patrick Haggard, Rational appetite, Sensitive appetite, Wilder Penfield}

Neuroscience Refutes Free Will? Addressing an Objection

_{Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) is not as good as Libet’s methods for assessing real-time effects} _{Michael Egnor
October 26, 2020

Neuroscience, Philosophy of Mind}

In reply to a post in which I pointed out that neuroscience strongly supports the reality of free will, commenter AaronS1978 makes a point at Uncommon Descent: First Michael Egnor is wrong about there being no brain wave activity with free won’t Patrick Haggard in 2014 discovered accidotal brain waves to free won’t I feel he kind of makes declarations, I understand his position philosophically and I do agree with a lot of it, but saying there is no activity before free won’t and saying it’s immaterial is incorrect Furthermore why wouldn’t there be brain activity when exercising your will? Wouldn’t that just mean that your soul was using your brain? Isn’t consciousness and conscious experience (hard problem of the Read More ›