AvatarigaeaUnderstanding Consciousness Is Key to Unlocking Secrets of the Universescientificamerican.com - Amy BradyFor a time, in the late 1980s, it looked like the field of neural networks was dead. Its researchers, who were seeking answers about consciousness by …
AvatarigaeaWhy Free Will Denial is Self-Refutingmindmatters.ai - Michael EgnorAtheist biologist Jerry Coyne has doubled down (it’s more like quadrupled down) on his denial of the reality of free will. There are abundant reasons …
AvatarigaeaYes, We Have Free Will. No, We Absolutely Do Notnautil.us - Dan FalkYou’re thirsty so you reach for a glass of water. It’s either a freely chosen action or the inevitable result of the laws of nature, depending on who …
AvatarigaeaCan Evolution Create Free Will? A Neurologist Says Yesmindmatters.ai - Denyse O'LearyThe traditional materialist stance, one that neuroscientist Sam Harris, theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, and evolutionary biologist Jerry …
AvatarigaeaWhat are the four main theories of consciousness?newscientist.com - By Anil SethIn the early days of modern consciousness science, back in the 1990s, researchers focused on identifying empirical correlations between aspects of …
AvatarigaeaHow Could Human Consciousness “Evolve”?mindmatters.ai - Michael EgnorMy colleague Denyse O’Leary has a new post titled “The Human Mind Has No History,” where she observes, “There is no good reason to assume that human …