Category: Neuroscience
Neuroscience, pseudoscience, neurobollocks …
| October 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Neuroscience, News |
“The dazzling real achievements of brain research are routinely pressed into service for questions they were never designed to answer. This is the plague of neuroscientism ” more
Neuroscientists claim octopus has consciousness
| August 21, 2012 | Posted by News under Animal minds, Neuroscience, News |
The problem is that no one knows what consciousness is, exactly, or how it arises, and – hat tip to Thomas Nagel – no one knows what it is like to be a bat, or octopus. more
Free will is compatible with an “expensive meat” view of the mind?
| August 19, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
Readers can be the judge of whether his approach works. There’s been a surprising amount of this lately. more
Getting a handle on the true nature of empathy
| August 12, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
As understood by humans. more
New word of the month: Biobabble
| August 10, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience, News |
” … the seemingly endless and tedious pages of evolutionary psychology that make up the key sections of the book’s first three chapters. ” more
New neuroscience findings: Free will is back in town?
| August 8, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
“‘If we are correct, then the Libet experiment does not count as evidence against the possibility of conscious will,’ says Schurger.” more
Lose that scarlet letter, will you? When researchers rip off, who is to blame a wunderkind science writer?
| August 5, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience |
“That Lehrer’s preposterous reductive effort was so widely welcomed by the public and leading publications is what we most need to be concerned about.” more
Can the concept of information explain consciousness?
| August 4, 2012 | Posted by News under Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience, News |
Tononi’s theory of consciousness is a measure of information. more
Raymond Tallis: Sleep is still a biological – and psychological – mystery
| August 3, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
“the only reason we need to sleep that is really, really solid, is that we get sleepy.” more
Jonah Lehrer, and the truth losing its facts
| August 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Neuroscience, News |
The simple solution of not taking any materialist neuroscience seriously – treat it like politicians’ campaign biographies – would solve the problem. more
“Inside our skull is more than just a brain”
| July 22, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Neuroscience, News |
Astonishing that such words would appear in a regular issue schmience journal – but maybe it isn’t that any more. Wait and see. more
Integrating Non-physical Causation Into Cognitive Models
| July 12, 2012 | Posted by johnnyb under Comp. Sci. / Eng., Engineering, ID Foundations, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Media, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Video |
For the next installment of the Engineering and Metaphysics Conference Videos, we have a talk on setting up a testable line between physical and non-physical causation, as well as how one can integrate non-physical causation into models of cognitive processes. more
Neuroscientist Bradley Voytek: Forget Lehrer. Neuroscience’s “own house is in such disarray”
| July 1, 2012 | Posted by News under Neuroscience, News |
The assumptions on which neuroscience proceeds today are often shallow and misleading, producing nonsense intended by special interest groups to manipulate the public. more
From MercatorNet: What can a brain scan tell us about ourselves?
| June 28, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, News |
Publicity around brain scans can create an uncertain, gullible public, easily swayed. more
Surprise, surprise, worm’s nervous system “much more complex than thought”
| June 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Neuroscience, News |
“Before, people simply thought each neuron was one functional module, … there are, potentially, many more functional units. That hugely enlarges the computational capability of this relatively simple neural system.’” more
Another myth shattered: Smart people are MORE vulnerable to thinking errors, not less
| June 16, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
“Although we assume that intelligence is a buffer against bias … it can actually be a subtle curse.” more
Has the pop neuroscience of creativity been “underbussed”?
| June 11, 2012 | Posted by News under Culture, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience, News |
“Their sponging off science is what gives these writers the authority that their readers impute to them, and makes their simplicities seem very weighty. ” more
ID-friendly neurosurgeon Michael Egnor now has a blog
| May 30, 2012 | Posted by News under Neuroscience, News |
Egnorance! more
There is something wrong with the popular idea of what brain scans can tell us if …
| May 27, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
… they are getting signals from dead fish. more
Oxytocin, love drug, turns out not to be
| May 18, 2012 | Posted by News under Mind, Neuroscience, News |
The “love hormone”, it turns out, has a dark side, one that is only just starting to come to light. more