Antonio Damasio – Uncommon Descent

Mind Naturalism Neuroscience

At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientists: The Hard Problem of consciousness isn’t so hard!

If consciousness remains unexplained by materialist theories, we are entitled to conclude, at least provisionally, that it is not a material phenomenon.

Animal minds Intelligent Design

At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientist: Even viruses are intelligent in some sense

Researchers who study viruses, including the one that causes COVID, note similarities between viral strategies and those of insects and animals.

Animal minds Cell biology Evolution Intelligent Design Mind

At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientist: Nervous systems alone do not cause consciousness

One-celled intelligence aside, it’s unclear how Antonio Damasio’s ladder of consciousness, built on self-balancing and death avoidance, gets us the human mind.

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Fred Hickson There aren’t any known naturalistic mechanisms capable of universal common descent.Read what you wrote, ET. It makes no sense. It... – How could we test universal common...
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Silver Asiatic FH Anyone else like to take a look at the article? Thanks for the reference. This is helpful. We often... – Casey Luskin at Hillfaith: Using the...
jerry A visual that explains anti ID https://mobile.twitter.com/BillyM2k/status/1527134430027845633 – Casey Luskin at Hillfaith: Using the...
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