Tag Archives: Mind

Zombies: The Movie

Paul, frequent commenter here, sent me this link by email: Overcoming Bias: Zombies: The Movie. Some excerpts: DOCTOR: David! David Chalmers! Can you hear me? CHALMERS: Yes. NURSE: It’s no use, doctor. CHALMERS: I’m perfectly fine. I’ve been introspecting on my consciousness, and I can’t detect any difference. I know I would be expected to …

May 2, 2008 – 4:07 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Just For Fun | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Mind and Brain: Philosophy or Science?

Denyse O’Leary was the co-author (with Dr. Mario Beauregard) of a book I reviewed in the April issue of Touchstone magazine: The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. Beauregard has published research (see links from here) challenging some neuroscientists’ view that spiritual experiences can be explained through physical brain science …

April 25, 2008 – 11:31 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , , , , , | Comments (11)

“Dementia diagnosis brings relief, not depression”–Why?

This made absolutely no sense to me at first: ‘The major finding is that both patients and their families feel relief, not increased anxiety, upon learning the [Alzheimer's] diagnosis,’ says study co-author John C. Morris, M.D., the Harvey A. and Dorismae Hacker Friedman Distinguished Professor of Neurology and director of the Alzheimer’s Disease Research Centre. …

March 8, 2008 – 9:21 am | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science, The Faith | Tagged , , , | Comments (7)

“How thoughts arise”

Science Centric has a report on a new, more effective approach to simulating neural networks: In their doctoral theses, Arvind Kumar and Sven Schrader have simulated large neuronal networks that, for the first time, take this neuronal feature into account. Especially in the neocortex, neurones are intensely interconnected, i.e. they receive many input signals that …

January 8, 2008 – 1:42 pm | By Tom Gilson | Posted in Origins and Science | Tagged , | Comments (22)