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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.

bornagain77 JVL, "Any good scientific view should be updated and modified when new evidence and data is discovered." You are, as... – Are Mutations Really Random?
JVL Bornagain77: Darwin’s theory itself will, time and time again, simply “evolve” so as to try to avoid any potential falsification... – Are Mutations Really Random?
asauber Sin clouds the mind. For some, it may be the sin of pride, or it could be lots of other... – Good question: Why do atheists reason...
bornagain77 JVL, "If you choose to not keep up with the latest iterations (or Darwin's theory)",,, LOL, too funny, the only... – Are Mutations Really Random?
polistra If we needed theories this might be important. We don't need theories, so this doesn't matter. – Is Darwinism an "Empty Theory"?
JVL Bornagain77: No JVL, Darwin’s theory holds that mutations are random, i.e. unguided, period. If you choose to not keep up... – Are Mutations Really Random?
bornagain77 No JVL, Darwin's theory holds that mutations are random, i.e. unguided, period. Completely random mutations are the friggin teleological denying... – Are Mutations Really Random?
doubter WJM@63 The Abstract of the paper shows that the paper is strictly for specialists in this esoteric area of quantum... – Why (some) physicists think a multiverse...
kairosfocus First reports found from Tonga, significant damage https://www.daily-sun.com/post/599846/Huge-Tonga-volcanic-eruption-caused-signifcant-damage – Undersea volcano erupts near Tonga, sends...
JVL Neil Rickert: I was going to put my two-cents in but you've covered much of the core ideas. I think... – Are Mutations Really Random?
martin_r And here is a designed species that creates sand design... https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=B91tozyQs9M – If there is a secret math...
martin_r deleted – If there is a secret math...
bornagain77 Well actually ChuckyD, contrary to your usual denial of evidence that is sitting right in front of you, (i.e. willful... – A Case of Bad Timing
chuckdarwin BA77 @ 53 In short, multicellular life would not even exist in the first place if life was not, in... – A Case of Bad Timing
bornagain77 Moreover, to go even further in falsifying the claim from Darwinists that life is the result of 'ANTI-moral' "Death as... – A Case of Bad Timing
bornagain77 Darwinists hold that any conception of objective morality that we may have for life is merely a subjective, man-made, illusion.... – A Case of Bad Timing
William J Murray Robert Lanza, the creator of an MRT he calls "Biocentrism," said the following in a 2021 article: Now, new research,... – Why (some) physicists think a multiverse...
kairosfocus Updated overnight – Undersea volcano erupts near Tonga, sends...
kairosfocus LCD http://www.columbia.edu/~ey2172/orwell.html 1984's Winston Smith speaks . . . – A Case of Bad Timing
kairosfocus Over in L&FP 48a, regarding a new OP 48i: Today’s addition L&FP, 48i: Dallas Willard on the legitimate authority of... – A Case of Bad Timing
kairosfocus Ironically, deep ocean, such waves are unremarkable and may not be noticed, it is when they near a coast that... – Undersea volcano erupts near Tonga, sends...