Such perfect Darwinism, it had to be true. But look what happened…
Mind
Cuttlefish can delay gratification, suggesting smarts like chimpanzees and crows
Maybe the big question isn’t why are cuttlefish so smart but why are chimpanzees so dumb?
This time, human evolution was shaped by a quest for tasty food
The problem journalists always seem to leave hanging when writing about new theories of human evolution is, for example: If early humans weren’t smart already, they would not have learned how to control fire. If they weren’t aesthetically sensitive, they wouldn’t have noticed aesthetic differences in taste. Darwinist theories about the human mind seem to be one long parade of affirming the consequent.
The “smaller game” theory of the human brain
If the ability to hunt small prey requires a lot more intelligence, cats are definitely smarter than people, let alone smarter than dogs (a more frequently heard claim).
A science writer offers some interesting thoughts on free will
It’s interesting that a science writer sees through the most fundamental materialist rot. Unfortunately, it sounds as though he hopes to replace it with a different one.
Neuroscientists demonstrate that we can communicate with people while they are dreaming
At one time, the idea of communicating with people while they were dreaming would have been regarded by most scientists as hokey New Age stuff. But now a research group has done it.
Michael Egnor asks if materialist neuroscience is an unwitting Sokal hoax
Egnor thinks that while physicist Alan Sokal hoaxed postmodern journals (the famous Sokal hoax. of 1996), materialists like Francis Crick (1916–2004) seem to hoax themselves.
Michael Egnor: Materialists misrepresent Libet’s research on free will
Egnor is responding to a reader’s question about whether neuroscience has disproven free will.
Is “consciousness” a useless concept? Michael Egnor makes the case
Egnor: Our mental life is a composite of abilities — arousal, sensation, perception, locomotion, reason, etc., and these abilities appear to subsist in modified form despite dramatic changes in the body and brain.
Michael Egnor: From a medical perspective, “consciousness” adds nothing to the description of mental states
In his view, “ “Consciousness ” is a meaningless term that too often misleads us, and it shouldn’t be used in medicine, neuroscience, or philosophy: “Consciousness” is a very vague term and, ultimately, I don’t think it has any useful meaning at all, apart from other categories such as sensation, perception, imagination, reason etc. Aristotle Read More…
The thought determinism paradox, continued
Brain electrochemistry data does not describe actual thoughts; it certainly can’t trace thoughts to origins outside of the brain itself
Here’s a relatively new argument against the idea that our minds are an illusion
Stevens: Illusion theory has no rule of reproducibility. Yet, if you set up the infinity mirror experiment at another time, you will see the same effect.
Illusion theory has no rule about how other observers perceive their illusions.
Can we disentangle our minds from our experiences?
Consciousness: Why do you know you exist? A rock doesn’t know. Yet you both exist. What’s the difference?
How a Silicon Valley psychologist can believe consciousness doesn’t exist
The problem with Riach’s view is that the final level of complexity is immaterial and the computer is just not going there.
In new book, a psychologist tries to explain consciousness
Mark Solms clearly assumes, in his Psychology Today column, that the mind is just what the brain does. But that’s precisely the claim that the very existence of consciousness clouds.