Olfaction in Three Dimensions: Introducing the Nasal Cycle

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Besides the nose helping the mouth to bring in air, it also screens out dust and pollutants, while warming and adding water to prepare it for the lungs. Source
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Skeptic Michael Shermer’s Non-Vision of the Soul

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Responding to Michael Egnor at COSM 2025, he said that the soul is an explanation but not a good explanation for our relationship to our bodies. Source
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To Understand Nature’s Intentionality, We Must Go Back to the Future

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It required the truly inimitable intellect of Aquinas to Christianize and modernize what Aristotle had said 1,600 years before him. Source
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Neuroscientist Vows: We’ll Nail Consciousness Yet!

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Anil Seth, proponent of the “hallucination” theory of consciousness, vows that researchers will find that consciousness spot or circuit in the brain. Source
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Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”

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Aristotle noted that when we think carefully about natural causes we see that there are four distinct ways that causes can lead to effects in nature. Source
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