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13Jun 2022 by Post

How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind

Alfred Russel Wallace, Animal Liberation, Anthony Flew, Anthony O’Hear, biology, consciousness, cosmogonism, Darwin, David Bentley Hart, David Hume, deism, Donald Hoffman, Erasmus Darwin, Europeans, Evolution, Francis Crick, How Darwin and Wallace Split over the Human Mind, Intelligent Design, Irreducible Complexity, Lawrence Krauss, Lucretius, materialism, Michael Ruse, mind, natural selection, natural theology, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Peter Singer, Racism, rationalism, Richard Dawkins, Richard Rorty, Richard Spilsbury, Stephen Hawking, Ternate letter, The Origin of Species, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe

Marvelously free of racist prejudice, Wallace noted in his fieldwork in far-flung locations that primitive tribes were intellectually the equals of Europeans. Source

06Dec 2021 by Post

Evolutionary Psychology: When We Looked In, No One Was There

Evolution, fossil record, Human Origins, humans, mind, prehumans, Subrena Smith, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, University of New Hampshire

Because minds don’t fossilize, anything we think we know about the minds of putative prehumans is speculation. Source

22Oct 2021 by Post

Where and What Is Consciousness?

Aristotle, Baruch Spinoza, brain, cerebral cortex, consciousness, Evolution, Jerry Coyne, Mark Solms, Medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, philosophy, physicalism, robots, Science Uprising, The Hidden Spring, Thomas Aquinas

If humans are just “robots made of meat,” then the seat of consciousness ought to be locatable somewhere in the brain. Source

10Jul 2021 by Post

Stephen Meyer Tells Hank Hanegraaff About a Providential Debate — and Much More

atheists, BioLogos, debate, Denis Lamoureux, Faith & Science, Hank Hanegraaff, Hank Unplugged, Lawrence Krauss, migraine, mind, Personal God, providence, Return of the God Hypothesis, Stephen Meyer, theistic evolution, Toronto, universe

There were a couple of striking things about the debate, where Meyer was overcome early on by a migraine brought on by the bright lights. Source

29May 2021 by Post

Can LSD Help Us Understand the Mind–Brain Relationship?

Aldous Huxley, brain, brain injuries, consciousness, Cornell University, Ferdinand Schiller, fMRI, forgetfulness, functional magnetic resonance imaging, hypnosis, Ian Sample, LSD, matter, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Oxford University, psychedelic drugs, The Guardian

Aldous Huxley noted that LSD “lowers the efficiency of the brain as an instrument for focusing the mind on the problems of life.” Source

29Jan 2021 by Post

Egnor: Disturbing Questions About Consciousness

amnesia, analgesia, anesthesia, anesthesiologist, anesthesiology, consciousness, medical students, Medicine, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, pain, sedative, surgery, unconsciousness, Walter Bradley Center

Think about this next time you are put under general anesthesia, which I hope neither you nor I will be anytime soon. Source

02Dec 2020 by Post

Missing the Point: Codes Are Not Products of Physics

"survival of the fittest", alanine, amino acids, Charles Thaxton, code, codons, Darwinian evolution, DNA, double helix, Energy Code, Escherichia coli, Evolution, genetic code, Horst H. Klump, information, Intelligent Design, Jens Völker, Kenneth J. Breslauer, Masayori Inouye, materialists, mind, Molecular Darwinism, natural selection, PNAS, probability, proteins, Quarterly Review of Biophysics, Roger Olsen, Rutgers University, Second Law of Thermodynamics, serine, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, The Mystery of Life’s Origin, thermodynamics, Walter Bradley

Elaborate schemes to explain the origin of the genetic code from the laws of physics and chemistry miss the whole point about codes. Source

10Oct 2020 by Post

Listen: Scott Turner on Evolutionary Biology’s Mechanistic Bias

biology, brain, computers, Darwinism, Evolution, evolutionary biology, genes, ID The Future, intentionality, J. Scott Turner, mechanistic view, mind, purpose, Purpose and Design, Robert Crowther, State University of New York, SUNY

Viewing the brain as a computer, for example, obscures many things about the brain and the mind that exceed computers, both quantitatively and qualitatively. Source

07Oct 2020 by Post