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Zombies, 747’s, and the Absurd.

Posted on January 4, 2022 by waz — Leave a reply

David Chalmers the philosopher has become famous for his musings on consciousness which I have written on before, here and HERE. He has proposed that the supposed “Hard Problem” of Continue Reading →

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Wrong Then, Wronger Now: John Horgan’s “The End of Science”

Posted on May 4, 2021 by waz — 9 Comments ↓

The End of Science (1996) -by the science journalist John Horgan. Mr. Horgan, reflecting on his controversial characterization of the state of modern science, 20 years later from its first Continue Reading →

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Posted in History, Philosophy, Science, Secularism | Tagged Science | 9 Comments ↓

A World in Our Heads

Posted on April 3, 2020 by waz — Leave a reply

This essay is about what do we do with our consciousness, every waking minute of thought: model the future and plan behaviors in the world that we consider doing the Continue Reading →

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Posted in Evolution, Neuroscience, Paleoarchaeology, Philosophy, Psychology, Science | Tagged consciousness, Science | Leave a reply

Essay on Anti-Materialism, the Spiritualist Assumption.

Posted on March 1, 2020 by waz — Leave a reply

Some folks, how ’bout most folks, just don’t like the idea of materialism. “There must be something more”, many feel, and it is non-material, made of the spirit, in the Continue Reading →

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“Toys Rn’t Us” and neither are Animals (Episode 2).

Posted on August 9, 2019 by waz — Leave a reply

I’ve been reading the animal behavior literature for a few decades now. There is some excellent work by dozens of researchers exploring how animals behave and learn and remember and Continue Reading →

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Reluctantly: On Free Will (and Consciousness).

Posted on February 21, 2019 by waz — Leave a reply

Do we have free will, or does our brain choose everything we think or do as a result of previous brain states and sensory inputs, and it could not have Continue Reading →

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Posted in Neuroscience, Philosophy, Science, Secularism | Tagged Evolution, Science | Leave a reply

Consciousness Redux: Panpsychism “Does the Universe Know It’s Conscious?”

Posted on July 22, 2018 by waz — 1 Comment ↓

A few consciousness researchers and some of the more philosophically inclined that ponder what consciousness is all about, propose that inanimate objects and mere matter, maybe the Universe itself, all Continue Reading →

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The Odd Essay

Posted on March 4, 2018 by waz — Leave a reply

Information Kills Religion. Yes it does. Science; modern knowledge, sweeps away the old myths, superstitions, repressions, and pessimism of religious thought. Normally, I would prepare one of these posts on Continue Reading →

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On Da Future…”oh, please”

Posted on December 5, 2017 by waz — Leave a reply

Sometimes in my random review of current events, I read the futurist stuff, like Stephen Hawkings’ conjecture that we need to get off the earth in 600 years…, or else, Continue Reading →

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On Consciousness: Part 2. “What’s it like to be…?”

Posted on November 18, 2017 by waz — Leave a reply

The 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness, signed by a number of researchers on the subject, declares that animals have consciousness because they have similar neural structures to those we humans Continue Reading →

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