Tag: against materialism
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Does medicine actually help? [Cure rates and Philosophy analysis of mainstream and alternative medicine]
What would you think about a new pill that treats Hepatitis C ? (1) What would you think about a new pill that treats Hepatitis C and costs $1,000? What would you think about a new pill that SAYS it treats Hepatitis C and costs $1,000 ? What would you think of you gave $1,000…
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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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NDE and other consciousness without brain references
Resources for Near Death Experiences and other non-brain consciousness cases 1. Lommel paper: Source (see full text for free here => Mentions Pam case reported by Sabom) (cardiac arrests) After the publication of Lommel’s research in The Lancet for NDEs, no other research on NDEs has been published on that journal (dogmatism leads to censorship) [see…
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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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