2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (556+ words) Panpsychism has often appeared to be a strategy for rescuing materialism: We have minds, but so what? So do electrons! What about it? While Calvo now runs the Minimal Intelligence Lab at the University of Murcia in Spain, he started…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (321+ words) Alex O’Connor, who describes himself as a former atheist/agnostic, appeared on Closer to Truth in a segment called “Why Emergence Cannot Explain Consciousness.” It is Part 2 in a series of 8. [1:50 min] Why Strong Emergence Cannot Explain Consciousness O’Connor: I…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (847+ words) You don’t have to spend much time skimming the voluminous philosophy of mind literature to come across the mind–body interaction problem. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy explains it thus: Originally, the problem of mental causation was that of understanding how…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (428+ words) At Epoch Times, Makai Elías Calles discusses recent findings about plants’ complex ability to perceive and react to their environments: Plants lack neurons, but they still readily communicate, including by relaying danger cues. When a caterpillar bites a plant, it…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (694+ words) Prominent Allen Institute neuroscientist Christof Koch hit the news again recently, suggesting that the brain does not create consciousness. That is very much at odds with the current neuroscience perspective, set out in a journal article by J. L. Saver and J. Rabin…...

4+ week, 13+ hour ago   (328+ words) This article by philosopher of science Bruce Gordon is republished from Science and Culture Today. The frequently thought-provoking series Closer to Truth, created and hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn, recently released an interview clip with the Oxford physicist Chiara Marletto....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (184+ words) The debate in Krakow, Poland, sponsored by education foundation Fundacja En Arche is now available, with translation, at YouTube: Yes, the mind is merely a product of the brain: Dr. Paweł Boguszewski – Neuroscientist and behavioral scientist at the Nencki Institute....

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (415+ words) At Britain’s Telegraph, Joel Kotkin noted yesterday morning that a growing number of scientists believe that there is indeed a mind behind the universe: “As they continue to untangle the complexities of the universe and molecular biology, they see a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (448+ words) At IAI.TV, University of Colorado philosopher Dorothea Olkowski takes this on: “The brain is not a computer” IAI.TV July 21, 2026 The mistake, in her view, is assuming that consciousness is a function of a specific part of the brain,…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (577+ words) Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and I think so: we are currently writing a book on the science evidence for them and the difference that it makes (Worthy 2027). In his article, the Messiah university leadership professor focuses on one aspect of the…...