10Oct 2025 by Post

One Reason Near-Death Experiences Are Hard to Study

Amanda Gefter, analytic idealists, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, database, dissociation, eliminative materialism, Faith & Science, idealism, Joshua Farris, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, supernatural
When the mind is dissociated from the body briefly, it may acquire actual knowledge — as in NDEs where the knowledge acquired is later confirmed. Source
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03Oct 2025 by Post

John Searle (1932–2025): A Titan Passes

Baylor University, brain, ChatGPT, Chinese Room argument, computation, Computational Sciences, conscious states, Daniel Vanderveken, digestion, Discovery Institute Press, epistemic objectivity, Expression and Meaning, Foundations of Illocutionary Logic, John Searle, language, Minding the Brain, Neuroscience & Mind, ontic dualism, ontological idealism, ontology, philosophy, prose, qualitativeness, Science and Culture Today, scientism, Speech Acts, subjectivity, The Construction of Social Reality, The Nature of Nature, Unity, William Dembski
Searle’s most famous argument is undoubtedly the Chinese Room argument, first presented in his essay “Minds, Brains, and Programs” (1980). Source
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09Sep 2025 by Post

Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

brain, brain activity, brain regions, decision-making, hindbrain, human thinking, Life Sciences, Live Science, Matteo Carandini, midbrain, motor regions, mouse study, muscle responses, neurons, Neuroscience & Mind, pop psychology, processing, R. J. Mackenzie, textbooks, visual cortex
If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Source
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24Aug 2025 by Post

Near-Death Experiences Fail to Confirm Any Single Belief System

After (book), Belief, Bruce Greyson, Buddhism, Christianity, Denyse O'Leary, divine truth, Faith & Science, folk belief, guardian angel, Jacob Vazquez, medical science, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, occult belief, The Immortal Mind, theology, Truthful Hope
People of different faiths tend to have experiences consistent with their culture. What does that say about the reality of the experiences? Source
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20Aug 2025 by Post

A Device to Read Minds? Not What Researchers Intended, But…

amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, brain implant, brain-computer interfaces, BrainGate2, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, dissidents, English, Erin Kunz, ethics, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Francis Willett, government, Ian Fleming, inner speech, Jacques Vidal, Manhasset, monologue, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, new york, Rudy Molinek, Sarah Wandelt, Smithsonian Magazine, speech, Stanford University, stroke, Technology, UCLA
"There’s a voice inside most people’s minds that comes alive when they listen, read, or prepare to speak." Source
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02Aug 2025 by Post

How Understanding Points Beyond Physicalism

algorithms, Aristotle, Artificial Intelligence, brain processes, Brown University, cognitive science, computational mechanics, computationalism, computer science, computers, Epistemology, humans, Intellect, James F. Ross, John McCarthy, John Searle, Life Sciences, mind, modus tollens, Neuroscience & Mind, Pat Flynn, philosophy, Roderick Chisholm, Selmer Bringsjord, Thomas Aquinas, triangularity
A computer science professor shows, using logic, how you must be more than mere matter. Source
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17Jul 2025 by Post

Slime Mold: Thanks for the Memories

biology, brain, Cambridge University, cell, decision-making, detritus, food, French National Centre for Scientific Research, habituation, information, Intelligent Design, labyrinth, Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence, Matthew Sims, mazes, memory, navigation, Neuroscience & Mind, nuclei, Physarum polycephalum, Plasmodium, railway network, slime mold, Slime Mould and Philosophy, Tokyo, Toshiyuki Nakagaki, trails
In recent decades, researchers have been learning about memory in slime molds which have neither a brain nor neurons. Source
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