Category: Mind Philosophy
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Psychiatry, biology, neurology, stupidity.
Just weeks before the long-awaited publication of a new edition of the so-called bible of mental disorders, the federal government’s most prominent psychiatric expert has said the book suffers from a scientific "lack of validity". The expert, Dr. Thomas R. Insel, director of the National Institute of Mental Health, said in an interview Monday that…
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Where is what we "see"?
People think what we see is in our brains. Like a small camera obscura. But Sheldrake reminds us of the obvious: What we see is not in our brains but we see it outside of it. A simple idea that could trigger a simple "huh?" by the haste reader. Think about it though: Even if…
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TED, atheists, censorship…
TED is supposed to be a platform to facilitate the organization of talks about interesting subjects by interesting people. But when Sheldrake decided to talk about 10 dogmas of modern science (one of which is related to non-localized consciousness, which, according to the speaker, can exist outside of our brain) and when Hancock decided to talk about consciousness, dreams and psychedelia then…
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Learning, DSB, DNA...
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have discovered that a certain type of DNA damage long thought to be particularly detrimental to brain cells can actually be part of a regular, non-harmful process. [1] Scientists have long known that DNA damage occurs in every cell, accumulating as we age. But a particular type of DNA damage,…
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Brain, Memory & Plasticity against materialism
Many people believe in the materialistic explanation of consciousness, which demands that all functions of our mind take place into our brain. And even more people believe that the very basic problem of memory is one of the first that have been "solved". Right? Wrong. Scientists do not know where exactly is memory located. To…
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