Mind
Claim: Human cognitive abilities a consequence of walking upright
Unusual finding: Nature does NOT generally help human mental health
At Mind Matters News: Yes! There is evidence for the intelligent design of the brain (Michael Egnor)
At Mind Matters News: Memory leans more on the brain’s electric field than on neurons
At Mind Matters News: Consciousness experiments confirm each research group’s theories
At Mind Matters News: John Horgan at Scientific American: Does quantum mechanics kill free will?
At Mind Matters News: Science writer: Explain-away-the-mind book doesn’t succeed
At Mind Matters News: Eric Holloway asks, Is AlphaZero Actually Superior to the Human Mind?
At Mind Matters News: The Philosopher’s Zombie Still Walks and Physics Can’t Explain It
At Mind Matters News: The mystery of how newborns know things gets deeper
At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientists: The Hard Problem of consciousness isn’t so hard!
At Mind Matters News: Chalmers and Penrose clash over “conscious computers”
At Mind Matters News: Does superdeterminism resolve dilemmas around free will?
What? Brain surgeons are NOT smarter than the rest of us?
We are told, “Data from 329 aerospace engineers and 72 neurosurgeons suggests they are not necessarily cleverer than general population”: Researchers examined data from an international cohort of 329 aerospace engineers and 72 neurosurgeons who completed 12 tasks online using the Great British Intelligence Test (GBIT) from the Cognitron platform, as well as answering questions around their age, sex and levels of experience in their speciality. The tasks examined various aspects of cognition, including planning and reasoning, working memory, attention, and emotion processing abilities. The researchers then compared the results against those previously gathered from more than 18,000 members of the British public. The findings, which were published in the festive edition of the BMJ, reveal that only neurosurgeons showed Read More ›