1+ hour, 43+ min 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…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (848+ words) In 2010, Stephen Hawking opened his co-written book, The Grand Design, Hawking, Stephen, Mlodinow, Leonard – Amazon.com, with a sentence that is self-refuting: “Philosophy is dead.” Hawking argued that the biggest questions about the universe was for physicists to answer or…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (408+ words) During my lifetime, Neanderthal man has gotten progressively smarter. Well, not personally smarter because he now survives only in our genomes. But before we knew very much about him — including the fact that he does survive in our genomes — it…...

3+ week, 8+ hour ago   (48+ words) mindmatters.ai For secularists who do not take this story literally, it can also be understood as a metaphorical literary device on the fall of Man, as there is no doubt that anyone who tries to play the part of…...

1+ mon, 5+ day 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   (612+ words) In recent decades, it has become clear that our universe shows much evidence of design. Many physicists are uncomfortable with that idea. They prefer multiverse theory: our universe is just a blip in a vast sea of universes. It happens…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (716+ words) On Friday, I wrote a reflection, “A case for the special creation of human language,” after reading about an open-access study of primate laughter, including human laughter. The authors think that similarities between human and ape patterns in laughter help…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago   (907+ words) Recently, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and I were talking about a variety of things in connection with our upcoming book (Worthy 2028), offering a science-based but non-materialist approach to near-death experiences. One topic that came up was panpsychism, the idea that all…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (38+ words) mindmatters.ai It’s supposed to be a given that machines or brain organoids might be conscious despite not knowing what that is or how it works — but preborn children can’t be…...

2+ mon, 4+ day ago   (683+ words) In an article earlier this year at Debrief, Tim McMillan, explores what will happen if science finally explains consciousness: Consciousness, researchers acknowledge, may resist complete explanation for decades—or longer. However, they argue that the field has matured enough to…...