Mind
The mind is real. The great physicists knew this. But that said …
Mind: Just expecting treatment improves brain activity in Parkinson’s patients
There’s a gene for that…or is there?
Guess what? Humans don’t have free will but maybe rats do
Is neuroscience ruining the humanities?
New research charts how little we know about the brain
Patients’ recovery from illness can be affected by spirituality?
Controlling genes through thought waves?
Plato wins the argument against brain scientists?
Can we talk? Human language as the business end of consciousness
Amazingly, Time Magazine is not just directly undermining free will, for once
Darwinian Debating Device #13: Distorting or dismissing self-evident truths
In the Denying the truth is not the same as not knowing it thread, we see the Darwinist tendency to distort or dismiss self-evident truth (and, behind this, to deny first principles of right reason) in action. Another noteworthy DDD, no 14 by count so far. This starts in the very first comment: TT, 1: Barry, you wield self-evident truths as if they were weapons. Declaring that something is a self-evident truth does not make it so. Is it a self-evident truth that the sparkling point of light in the night sky is a star? 99% of the time (or more, I don’t really know), this extrapolation may be correct. Except when it is a plant or a galaxy. In Read More ›