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• MUST-LISTEN: J.P. Moreland lecture on Christianity and the progress of science

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 553
  I found the lectures here at Apologetics 315. These are GOOD. He covers a lot and you’ll get a lot of interesting stuff to think about. This is actually a great lecture – the old J.P. Moreland back in fine form. He’s going over a ton of arguments for theism from science. I’ve counted SIX so far, so this is a ...
  4 days ago

• Episode 031: In Search of the Soul, Part 3

  
  Say Hello to my Little Friend — Authority: 493
  The podcast is back. Heres part three of the series on philosophy of mind. Weve moved from dualism in part one through to physicalism in this episode. I look at epiphenomenialism, reductionism, nonreductive physicalism and a constitution view.As promised, heres some suggested reading for those who want to look into ...
  1 week ago

• Consciousness-Edge

  
  FreThink — Authority: 99
  Image via Wikipedia There’s an interesting write-up and video at Edge on the nature of consciousness . From the introduction: On October 17, Edge organized a Reality Club meeting at The Hotel Ritz in Paris to allow neuroscientist Stanislas Dehaene to present his new theory on how consciousness arises in ...
  2 weeks ago

• A Sense/Reference Objection to the Irreducibility of Phenomenally Conscious States

  
  Maverick Philosopher — Authority: 573
  I agree with Thomas Nagel, John Searle, and others that conscious experiences are irreducible to physical states. I have endorsed the idea that felt pain, phenomenal pain, pain as experienced or lived through ( er-lebt ), the pain that hurts , has a subjective mode of existence, a "first-person ontology" in Searles ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cryonics as something else

  
  Depressed Metabolism — Authority: 92
  At EconLog economist Bryan Caplan has posted a number of blog entries that perfectly illustrate what happens when cryonics is not presented as a form of experimental long term critical care medicine but linked to other ideas such as transhumanism, mind uploading, and immortalism. One post is titled “What’s Really ...
  2 weeks ago

• Inverted qualia

  
  Blogs — Authority: 161
  A couple of months ago I attended a lecture by  Saul Kripke  at CUNY’s Graduate Center. Kripke is one of the most influential philosophers of the late 20th century, someone who you simply have to go see give a talk if you have the chance, on the sole basis of his legendary status. As in many such cases, it is not ...
  3 weeks ago

• Brain Broadcasting Corporation

  
  Philosophy Sucks! — Authority: 116
  I have previously argued that synchronous neural activity is a candidate for a theoretical account of  what a brain state is.  Here is an  Interesting article reviewing a new paper that suggests an interesting role for neural synchrony.
  4 weeks ago

• Emerging Decisions

  
  Telic Thoughts — Authority: 422
  At his blog Thinking Christian Tom Gilson posted the blog entry The Will to Power–Is “Free Will” All in Your Head?: Scientific American. The link to the SA article is here. The author Christof Koch begins by posing the question: which part of the brain relates to behavioral decisions? He provides the ...
  4 weeks ago

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