Neuroscience
Michael Egnor asks, Are human brain transplants even possible?
Michael Egnor: What would happen to your soul if your head were transplanted?
We used to have a lizard brain in the 1990s but we don’t now
A science writer offers some interesting thoughts on free will
At Mind Matters News: A reader asks: Is it true that there is no self?
Neuroscientists demonstrate that we can communicate with people while they are dreaming
Michael Egnor asks if materialist neuroscience is an unwitting Sokal hoax
Michael Egnor: Materialists misrepresent Libet’s research on free will
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 had no distinct term for it. Nor do I think did any of the ancient or medieval philosophers. Consciousness is a modern term that seems to subsume all of the sensate powers of the soul — sensation, perception, sensus communis, imagination, memory, sensory appetite, etc. … The difficulty in defining “consciousness” is well recognized in medicine. For example, I ask medical students and residents who Read More ›