Category: Mind Philosophy
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Flat EEG, brain activity, assumptions...
New never before detected brain activity is found in patients with flat EEG. (1, 2) The first important note: It is not referring to a "flat" EEG", but to Burst-Suppression brain wave patterns. Second note: No, this is not an explanation of NDEs. Unless we believe that some oscillations of the current flowing into hippocampus…
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Imagination. From the whole brain...
Imagination. Seems that the whole brain is utilized for it to work, not just a specific part of it. (1, 2) More and more we are closing into the idea of Unity, starting from our own mind...
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Memories, illusions, arrogance...
Scientists claiming to be able to delete specific memories. [1] The important detail: the "deletion" was made by inhibiting the process of the formation of memories DAYS after the events that created the memories. How could that happen if that inhibitor only blocks the formation of memories? And how could the blocking of the creation…
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Altering your brain. Nothing special.
A mind altering drug could offer a life without the addiction of heroin. [1] First of all, the correct way to put it is to say "A brain altering drug could offer a life without the addiction of heroin". And secondly, how good is to decieve your self by using drugs to alter your will? And…
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Mind-body problem? But there is no body! (Chomsky's Mentalism)
There are claims there is no mind-body problem, on at least two different grounds: There is no mind to reduce to body, or no body to which mind can be reduced. The first of these two arguments is sometimes asserted by eliminative materialists, who claim that nothing in reality corresponds to our folk psychological notions…
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