Nobel Disease – Uncommon Descent

At Skeptical Inquirer: Thinking outside the box is called the “Nobel Disease”

Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor doesn’t agree. In reality, he says, unorthodoxy helped the unorthodox scientists win the Prize.

Seversky Again, what is meant by being in control of one's thoughts? The question implies that our conscious self is some... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
martin_r CD The researchers say that while this discovery does not mean that the entire bird family tree needs to be... – At Science Daily: Fossil overturns more...
bornagain77 Free will, and/or agent causality, in any real and meaningful sense, is simply completely incompatible with Atheistic Naturalism. And it... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Querius Chuckdarwin @17, . . . all the IDers huffing and puffing, gloating and bloviating about the demise of evolution. It... – At Science Daily: Fossil overturns more...
Sir Giles Origenes: When I speak of being in control of one’s thoughts, I mean to say, that when we put in... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Origenes To be clear about 'control.' My position is that rationality requires a person who is in control of his thoughts.... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Alan Fox So AF holds that the ‘niche”, not AF himself, is responsible for the information that he himself is writing in... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Alan Fox The primary question is: what is [consciousness]? Nobody knows. Neuoscientists sure as heck don’t know. Well, there I agree. Certainly,... – At Big Think: Brain experiment suggests...
bornagain77 BA77: “So AF holds that the ‘niche”, not AF himself, is responsible for the information that he himself is writing... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Alan Fox We know that brain damage can interrupt consciousness.Indeed. There is the Glasgow Coma Scale that used to be called the... – At Big Think: Brain experiment suggests...
Origenes PM1 @88 I think I made it pretty clear that I regard myself (and most other people, with various caveats... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Alan Fox All I do is ask a straightforward question.For shame, Origenes. There is a serious point as to whether we can... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Origenes PM1 @, Giles @ Sir Giles: PM1, an excellent example of someone misrepresenting your view ... can be seen @84... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
PyrrhoManiac1 @84 Let us be very clear here. Are you the one who gave arguments? Are you the one who thinks?... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Sir Giles And then there is consciousness, neuroscience’s giant question mark. What causes it A very good question. An approach that has... – At Big Think: Brain experiment suggests...
Sir Giles PM1, an excellent example of someone misrepresenting your view in a childish ploy to justify dismissing your view rather than... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Sir Giles PM1@85, a sure sign that they have no cogent response to the logic of your argument is when they start... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
PyrrhoManiac1 @82 PM1@82, you are wasting your time if you are expecting an honest and fair discussion here. With few exceptions,... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Origenes PM1I gave arguments for why I think that the concept of control .... Let us be very clear here. Are... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
Sir Giles PM1@82, you are wasting your time if you are expecting an honest and fair discussion here. With few exceptions, those... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...
PyrrhoManiac1 @81 There is simply no rational way forward once someone claims that he does not exist or is not in... – At Evolution News: For Darwinism, Pregnancy...