Neuroscience
Historian explains the limits of reductionism in science
Science historian: “Darwin’s neuroscience was in trouble from the beginning”
Neuroscience: “Neuro-leadership” debunked
Darwinist neuroscience in trouble?: Even facial expressions are not that informative, never mind brain scans
Major brain wiring claim is overturned? Challenges dogma?
Why materialist neuroscience must necessarily remain a pseudo-discipline
Materialists respond to backlash against materialist neuroscience
It’s becoming conventional to assert that the mind is not the brain—even NYT’s David Brooks is now doing it
Non-materialist neuroscience collapsing in films?
Further evidence that mindless neuroscience is not hot
Brainwashed?
Psychiatrist Sally Satel and psychologist Scott O. Lilienfeld have produced Brainwashed: The seductive appeal of mindless neuroscience , which should be of interest to anyone who thinks the brain is not just a jelly. News writer Denyse O’Leary is co-author of The Spiritual Brain.
A respectful article on mindfulness? In Scientific American?
REFERENCE: The Smith Model, an architecture for cybernetics and mind-body/ free will/ determinism/ compatibilism analysis . . .
Since the issue of agent freedom and cause has again come up, it is worth the while to post the following summary on the Smith Model for agent cause and cybernetics, from the IOSE unit on minds etc: __________ >>(c) Of neurons, brains and minds The neuron (in its various types) is the key building brick of brain and nervous tissues: Neurons are interconnected in neural networks {added, Jun 4: cf. visualisation here}, and onward to form the brain and wider nervous system. As Christos Stergiou and Dimitrios Siganos summarise: In the human brain, a typical neuron collects signals from others through a host of fine structures called dendrites. The neuron sends out spikes of electrical activity through Read More ›