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Introduction to This Site
Free E-book: Why Mind and Memory Cannot Be Brain Effects
Preservation of Mind and Memories After Removal of Half a Brain
Exceptional Memories Strengthen the Case Against Neural Memory Storage
Why a Brain Should Be Unable to Reliably Transmit Any Memory or Thought Signal
A New Paper Suggests Scientists Have No Solid Theory of Neural Memory Storage
Why We Should Not Think the Human Brain Can Store Very Old Memories
Why the Instantaneous Recall of Old Memories Should Be Impossible for a Brain
Cases of High Mental Function Despite Large Brain Damage
Reasons for Doubting a Brain Could Do the Super-Complex Encoding Needed to Neurally Store Episodic Memories or Concepts
The Promissory Notes of Materialist Professors Are Long Past Due
Study Finds No Correlation Between Number of Neurons and IQ
The Many Cases Showing a Person's Mind Can Operate When His Brain Has Shut Down
A Soul Might Explain Instincts, but DNA and Brains Cannot
Five Hallmarks of an Information Storage System (None of Which Your Synapses Have)
Your Physical Structure Did Not Arise Bottom-Up, So Why Think Your Mind Did?
Why a "Mechanical Memory" Theory Does Not Work
The Brain Seems to Have No Mechanism for Reading or Writing Memories
No One Understands How a Brain Could Generate Ideas
Prevailing Brain Dogmas Cannot Explain Hypnotic Phenomena
30 Reasons for Rejecting the Theory of Neural Memory Storage
Common Experiences That Show the Untruth of Professorial Memory Claims
Neuroscience Research Customs Guarantee an Abundance of Junk Science
Groupthink and Peer Pressure Make It Taboo for Neuroscientists to Put Two and Two Together
The Social Construction of Eager Community Mirages
Preprint Server Counts Suggest Engrams Are Not Really Science
Engrams Are Touted Like Phlogiston Was Once Touted
Synaptic Delays Mean Brain Signals Must Move at a Snail's Pace
Raven Smarts Defy Prevailing Brain Dogmas
No One Can Credibly Explain Why a Brain Would Store a Memory in One Specific Spot
Brain Dogmas Versus Case Histories That Refute Them
Inaccurate Titles and Misleading Citations Are Common in Science Papers
In Neuroscience Papers Bluffing Is More Common Than Candor
Young Age of Languages Contradicts Claims of Neural Storage of Linguistic Information
Vacillating Disarray of the Memory Trace Theorists
Study Finds "Poor Overall Reliability" of Brain Scanning Studies
"Brains Store Memories" Dogma Versus the Reality of Noisy Brains
The Brain Has Nothing Like 7 Things a Computer Uses to Store and Retrieve Information
Exhibit A Suggesting Scientists Don't Understand How a Brain Could Store a Memory
The Dubious Dogma That Brains Make Decisions
Long Article Tries to Show Neural Memory Storage, but Gives No Real Evidence for It
How Evidence for ESP Undermines the “Minds Come From Brains” Dogma
Gender Differences in Brains Help Discredit Prevailing Dogmas About Brains
Study Finds Equal Brain Connectivity in All Mammals
Some Reasons the Main Theory of Neural Memory Storage Is Unbelievable
Scientists Can't Persuasively Explain How a Brain Could Instantly Retrieve a Memory
The Lack of Evidence for Memory-Storage Engram Cells
Candid Confessions of the Cognition Experts
Global Workspace Theory Sure Isn't an Explanation for Consciousness
When Animals Cast Doubt on Dogmas About Brains
Memories Can Form Many Times Faster Than the Speed of Synapse Strengthening
The Guy with the Smallest Brain Had the Highest IQ
He Had Half a Brain and Above Normal Intelligence
The Truth About Neurons and Synapses
A Diagram of Explanatory Dysfunction in Academia
The Brain Shows No Sign of Working Harder During Thinking or Recall
More Evidence of High Mental Function Despite Large Brain Damage
The Lack of a Viable Theory of Neural Memory Encoding
More Evidence That Neuron Loss Has Little Effect on Cognition
Fraud and Misconduct Are Not Very Rare in Biology
Reasons for Doubting Thought Comes from the Frontal Lobes or Prefrontal Cortex
Why Most Animal Memory Experiments Tell Us Nothing About Human Memory
Other Evidence of Human Paranormal Abilities
Why Brains Are Not Suitable for Storing Long Sequences Like Humans Remember
Why Brain Scans Don't Show Brains Make Minds
Why Strokes, Alzheimer's Disease and Drunkenness Don't Prove the “Brains Make Minds” Dogma
Synaptic Density Studies Contradict the Most Popular Memory Theory
The Rare "Total Recall" Effect That Conflicts with Brain Dogmas
Physical Connections Do Nothing to Explain Cognition
The Sociological Reasons Why Bad Explanations Persist in Academia
Split-Brain Cases Conflict with "Brains Make Minds" Dogma
Why So Much of Neuroscience News Is Unreliable
An Analogy Clarifying Why the "Brain Stores All Your Memories" Dogma Is Untenable
Why Darwinism Fails to Explain the Human Mind
What Is It That a Brain Does?
Cloud Computing and a Non-Local Model of Consciousness
Why We Do Not Understand the Origin of Complex Biological Innovations
Our Minds May Arrive Top-Down Not Bottom-Up
Fancy New Technology Fails to Prove Memory Dogmas
The Argument for Determinism Collapses Once We Discard the "Minds Come from Brains" Dogma
Animal Experiments Conflicting with the Dogma That the Brain Stores All Memories
Memory Recall Reality Versus the "We Can't Remember Well" Bunk of Professors
Neuroscientists Keep Using Misleading Coloring in Brain Visuals
Most Scientists Don't Follow Formal Evidence Standards, Unlike Judges
Experimental Evidence for ESP Is Well-Replicated
Imaging of Dendritic Spines Hint That Brains Are Too Unstable to Store Memories for Decades
NIH Bets $1,434,188 That Synapses Don't Store Memories
A New Case of Very Large Brain Damage and Normal Mental Function
When Clue-Blind Professors Ignore All the Signs
Why Neuroscience Hasn't Delivered for Psychiatry
Panpsychism Arguments Involve an Equivocation Fallacy
He's Strangely Seeking Memories in Cells Below the Neck
Just Call Them "Machine-Metaphor-Misguided"
Way Off in Their Predictions, Neuroscientists Keep Misdescribing Human Memory Performance
The Biggest Brain Projects Are Still Failing to Support Prevailing Brain Dogmas
A New Paper Reminds Us Neuroscientists Can't Get Their Story Straight About Memory Storage
NSF Grant Tool Query Suggests Engrams Are Not Really Science
Suspect Shenanigans When You Hear Claims of "Mind Reading" Technology
Why ESP Discredits the "Brains Make Minds" Claim
Beware of Neuroscientists Using Cell Nicknames
The Press Often Gives Us Fake News About Brains
No Solid Principle Justifies "Brains Make Minds" Thinking
"Thousands of Participants Are Needed for Accurate Results," But Most Brain Scan Studies Don't Even Use Dozens
Why the Academia Cyberspace Profit Complex Keeps Giving Misleading Brain Research Reports
"Brains Make Minds" Idea Flunks an Audit of a Large Brain Scan Database
Big Study Finds Brain Gray Matter and Cortical Thickness Peak at Age 6 or Earlier, Contradicting Brain Dogmas
Why the "A Memory Is Stored Throughout the Brain" Idea Makes Things Much Worse
Principles of a Post-Materialist Science
EEG Studies Fail to Provide Robust Evidence That Brains Think or Retrieve Memories
Seven Things in Fast Retrieval Systems, None of Which Your Brain Has
Studies Debunk Hippocampus Memory Myths
11Authorities Seem to Realize That "Your Brain Is a Computer" Is a Junk Metaphor
Don't Be Fooled: Well-Trained Chatbots Aren't Minds
Cognitive Effects of Epilepsy Surgery Clash with "Brains Make Minds" Dogma
Evolution Does Not Explain DNA, DNA Does Not Explain Bodies, and Bodies Do Not Explain Minds
"Brain Chemical Imbalance" Theory Is Fading Out as an Explanation for Mental Illness
Why Plasticity and Neurogenesis Fail to Explain Minds That Work Well After Massive Brain Tissue Loss
They're Calling It a Huge Memory Research Fraud, But Is It Only the Tip of the Iceberg?
So Much Misleading Talk Occurs in Claims of a Scientific Consensus
Shrink-Speaking About a Mere "Problem of Consciousness" Is As Wrong As Shrink-Speaking About a Mere "Problem of Human Shape Origination"
Longtermism Is Fueled by a Goofy Belief in Computer-Generated Lives
Given Their Narrow Studies and Slim Narrow PhD Dissertations, Why Are We So Swayed by Neuroscience PhDs?
Some of the Weak Papers Neuroscientists Cite As Evidence for Their Chief Claims
For Insight About Your Brain and Mind, Ponder the Never-Founds
Brain Imaging Shows No Appreciable Neural Correlates of Memory Activity
The Evidence Inversion Syndrome Blights Academia
Poorly Designed Brain Scan Experiments Needlessly Put the Needy at Risk
Science Literature Is Full of Misleading Claims About Brain Waves
The US Government's False Claims About DNA
If Neuroscientists Acted Like Cosmologists, They Might Say You Have an Invisible "Dark Brain"
Exceptionally Fast Thinking Cannot Be Explained by Slow Brains Like We All Have
Scientists and Clergy Have Much in Common
30 Things That Would Never Occur If Prevailing Neuroscientist Dogmas Were True
"Brains Make Minds" Models All Flunk a Large Brain Scan Study
The Philosophy of Teleospiritism
The Biggest Blunders of Theories Such as Integrated Information Theory
Study Finds No Robust Link Between Brain Structure and Personality
The Two Huge Mistakes Involved in Typical Talk of a "Hard Problem of Consciousness"
Neuroscientists Keep Wrongly Assuming the Source of Something Must Be Near Its Observed Manifestations
The Vague Unfounded Boasts of Biology Sound Like the Vague Unfounded Boasts of Astrophysics
8 Reasons for Doubting Claims of the Heritability of Intelligence
Widely Read Scientific Paper Asks, "What If Consciousness Is Not an Emergent Property of the Brain?"
Exhibit A Suggesting Scientists Don't Know How a Brain Could Retrieve a Memory
Exhibit B Suggesting Scientists Don't Know How a Brain Could Retrieve a Memory
More Indications Scientists Don't Understand How a Brain Could Think or Remember
Studies New and Old Fail to Show a Big Link Between Brain States and Minds
Free E-book: Failing Dogmas of Brain Researchers
Wobbly Hand-Waving Guesswork of the Synapse Memory Theorists
Cryogenic Electron Microscopy Helps Clarify Synapses Bear No Resemblance to Information Storage Structures
Did a Stealth Religion Infiltrate Academia?
Human Thoughts and Memory Are Gigantically Connective, But Brains Have Only Low Connectivity
Exhibit A Suggesting Scientists Have No Understanding of How a Brain Could Imagine Anything
There Is No Evidence of a Neural Explanation for Out-of-Body Experiences
Misleading Claims in Attempts to Naturally Explain Near-Death Experiences and Out-of-Body Experiences
The Latest Evidence That Scientists Trying to Explain Memory Creation Are Lost in the Woods
Study Suggests Massive Faking in Neuroscience Papers
How Neuroscientists and Science Writers Try to Fool You Into Thinking Brains Store Memories
Some People Our Neuroscientsts Don't Want You to Know About
10 Reasons Synapses Cannot Be a Storage Place for Human Memories
Why Most Correlation-Fishing Experimental Neuroscience Is Worthless
Pharmaceutical Company Entanglements Cloud the Objectivity of Neuroscientists and Psychiatrists
The 4 Nonsensical Parts of the Tale Your Brain Instantly Retrieved an Answer Learned Long Ago
Neuroscientists Don't Seem Like Paragons of Diligence
"Brain Is the Most Complex Object in Universe" Claim Exemplifies Credulity About Brain Claims
Exhibit B That Scientists Have No Understanding of a Physical Basis of Human Memory
Goofs of the Site Brainfacts.org
Shady Tricks Used by Writers About the Brain
The 11 Biggest Neural Shortfalls Hinting Brains Don't Make Minds
Analysis of 23,810 Brain Scans Finds "Neither Structural Nor Functional Imaging Predicted Individual Psychology"
All Papers Relying on Rodent "Freezing Behavior" Estimations Are Junk Science
The Human Brain Project Spent Billions, But Failed to Bolster Claims About Brains Making Minds
Hydrocephalus Studies Confirming Low Correlation Between Brain States and Intelligence
The Lack of Evidence That Brains Produce Dreaming, and Some Evidence Hinting They Don't
How the Academia-Cyberspace-Pharmaceutical-Biotech-Publishing Complex Incentivizes Bad Brain Research
The Lack of Correlation Between Most Mental Illness and Brain States
They Stored and Studied Thousands of Brains, But Still Failed to Show Mental Illness Comes From Sick Brains
They Stored and Studied Thousands of Brains, But Still Failed to Show Brains Store Memories
Major Journal Suggests 3% of Biology Papers Look Like Paper Mill Junk
This Is What Built the Mighty Castle of Materialism
Comparing the Dogmas of Cosmology and Biology
Why Scientific Academia Is Like an Organized Religion
Neuroscientists Claim "Drifting Representations," But It's Mainly Just Their Pareidolia
Neuroscience "Best of 2023" Reviews Suggests They're Getting Nowhere Trying to Explain Minds by Neural Explanations
Convoluted "Spaghetti Code" Analysis Pathways Help Neuroscientists Conjure Phantasms That Don't Exist
50 Types of Questionable Research Practices
Cox's Cases Were Better Explained as Evidence Brains Don't Make Minds
No, Scientist, That Isn't Human Memory or Brain Action, But Merely Computer Activity
You Would Never Guess From Her Videos That She Has No Frontal Lobes
Neuroscientists Often Sound Like They Never Seriously Studied Psychical Research
DNA Is Not a Blueprint, So "All Bets Are Off" About Body Origins and Mind Origins
Universities Continue to Boast About Pitifully Weak Neuroscience Results
No One Is Actually Doing Thought-Reading by Scanning Brains or Reading Brain Signals
A Biologist Calls "Orthodox Science" a "Religion" and "Belief System"
She Has Photographic Memory and Severe Unmanageable Epilepsy
Traumatic Brain Injury Results Clashing With Prevailing Dogmas About Brains
"Cells With Minds" Theory Is As Bad As "Brains Make Minds" Theory
Surprising Studies on Memory Loss or IQ Changes After Brain Surgery or Brain Damage
Pareidolia Helps Neuroscientists Getting Nowhere Trying to Show a Brain Basis for Memory
HSAM Memory Whiz Subjects Scored 25 Times Higher on a Random Dates Test
How High-Speed Life Reviews in Near-Death Experiences Discredit "Brains Make Minds" Claims and "Brains Store Memories" Claims
More Indications That Scientists Have No Understanding of How a Brain Could Think
Searching Hard for Evidence of Strokes Causing Loss of Episodic or Conceptual Memories, They Come Up Short
We Cannot Trust Neuroscientists to Speak Accurately About What Brains Do and What Minds Experience
The Mythology of "Memory Maintenance Molecules"
The Lack of Bodily Addresses Crushes the Credibility of Mechanistic Biology and Mechanistic Psychology
She Didn't Seem to Need the Right Half of Her Brain, and Losing It Did Not Seem to Dim Her Memories
60+ Aspects of the Human Mind, and Whether Brains Explain Them
Papers Claiming Brain Memory Storage Keep Citing Poor Science Papers
A Report of "Unimpaired Faculties Without a Brain" (John Bly)
Exhibit A That There Is No Such Thing as a Chemical Root of Consciousness
Look Very Closely at a Study Claiming Thought Reading of Brains, and You'll Find the Shady Tricks Behind It
UK Biobank Study of Thousands of Brains Finds Negligible Correlation Between Brain Size and Intelligence
Neuroscientists Senselessly Think They Can Perform Innumerable Contortions of Brain Data, and Then Claim a Discovery
They Mapped 150 Million Synapses, and Found No Sign of Stored Memories
Brains Show No Physical Signs of Reading or Retrieval When You Recall Something
In 1941 the Editors of Scientific American Confessed That Telepathy Was Proven
Old Newspaper Stories Relevant to Whether Brains Make Minds
Newspaper Accounts of Memory Marvels (Part 1)
Why Your Brain Is Not Like a Computer
They Memorized Many Times Faster Than a Brain Could Ever Do
Faltering Neuroscientists Improperly Offer Computer Science Papers as Examples of Neuroscience Progress
The Brains of 60 Subjects Seemed to Look the Same During Eyes Closed Mental Rest, Recall and Math Activity
The Problem of Explaining Human Minds Is a Million Times Larger Than a Mere "Problem of Conscious Experience"
Large Neuron Groups Cannot Be Sequentially Traversed, So Brains Cannot Store Complex Learned Information
Eyes and Minds Can Focus, But Brains Cannot Physically Focus
Most Subjects in Neuroscience Research Do Not Understand the Risks They Are Taking
Neuroscientists Cannot Credibly Explain Any of These 11 Features of Out-of-Body Experiences
Microscopes Will Never Find the Slightest Trace of Learned Information in a Human Brain
Newspaper Accounts of Memory Marvels (Part 2)
The Reason You Will Never Be Able to Upload Your Mind Is the Same Reason You Won't Ever Need To
Brain Tumors Seem to Have Relatively Little Effect on Cognitive Function
Newspaper Accounts of Memory Marvels (Part 3)
They Mentally Calculated Faster Than a Brain Could Ever Do
Claimed Evidence for "Concept Cells" Is Just Noise-Mining Nonsense
More Candid Confessions of the Cognition Experts
Neuroscientists Offer Only the Most Hazy Hand-Waving When Trying to Explain Memory
List of Breakthrough Prize Winners in Life Sciences Hints at the Lack of Progress in Cognitive Neuroscience
HSAM Wonder Daniel McCartney Was a Math and Memory Marvel
LTP Research Has Done Nothing to Show Any Neural Basis for Memory Creation
The Lack of Strong Links Between Mental Illness and Brain States
Subject MM Had a Stupendous Memory for Facts, But a Normal Brain
Lighting-Fast Readers Exceed the Speed Limits of a Brain
They Too Mentally Calculated Faster Than a Brain Could Ever Do
They Did Well After a Huge Loss of Brain Tissue
Newspaper Accounts of Memory Marvels (Part 4)
NIH's Million-Dollar "Epigenetic Memory" Bet Fails
The Myths About Patient K. C. and Patient H. M.
He Had Half a Brain But "Superior Intelligence"
New Poll Suggests About 29% of Neuroscientists Doubt the Synaptic Memory Theory
They Lost Huge Parts of Their Brains, But Their Knowledge and Recollection Were Preserved
The CIA's Long-Running MK-Ultra Mind Control Program Failed, Because Brains Don't Make Minds
NSF Funding Search Suggests Neuroscientists May Scarcely Believe in Engrams
Free E-Book: Near-Death Experiences and Out-of-Body Experiences
Hopfield Networks Do Nothing to Explain How a Human Could Remember or Recognize Anything
Hyperpolyglots Intensify the Explanatory Shortfalls of "Brains Make Minds" Claims
He Had Almost No Brain, But Was Bilingual With Near-Normal Verbal Skills
Misleading Tricks of Those Claiming to Decode "Inner Speech"
The Groundless Myth That "Floods"' or "Surges" Help Explain Near-Death Experiences
A Recent Study Suggests Very Many Biologists Are "AI Cheating"
Their Memory Performance Far Exceeded What a Brain Could Ever Do
She Has the Most Astounding Memory Skills But a Smaller-Than-Average Hippocampus
More Candid Confessions of the Neuroscientists
Every "Grade A" Report of an Out-of-Body Experience Cripples the Credibility of "Brains Make Minds" Claims
Men Have Faster-Shrinking Brains, But Women Get an Alzheimer's Diagnosis About Twice as Often as Men
Newspaper Accounts of Memory Marvels (Part 5)
Terminal Lucidity Helps to Discredit Claims That Brains Make Minds
More Old Newspaper Stories Relevant to Whether Brains Make Minds
There's No Good Evidence for Language-Parsing Ability in a Brain
Why Memory Reactivation Cannot Explain Memories Lasting Decades
A Paper Gives a Severe Blow to "Neural Correlates of Cognition" Claimants
Topics That Should Be Studied by Scholars of Brains and Minds
They Also Mentally Calculated Faster Than a Brain Could Ever Do
No, Your Brain Does Not Have Programs
AI Slop and Explanatory Snake Oil in Today's Neuroscience
The Failure of Neuroscientist Dogmas Is Intensified by HSAM Cases Such as Jill Price
Contrary to "Brains Make Minds" Claims, Brains Are Not Much More Electrically Active When You Are Awake
Dendrites Help Show That Brains Are Too Slow for Instant Recall
There's No Neural Explanation for Creativity, Which Can Improve After Brain Damage
Exhibit C That Neuroscientists Have No Understanding of How a Memory Could Form or Last in a Brain
She Had Above-Average Intelligence With Only About 15% of Her Brain
Her Mind Was Normal, Though She Had Almost No Brain
Her Mind Was 'Much Improved' After They Removed a Huge Part of Her Brain
The LTP Zap Deceits Continue
Synapse Strengthening is Way, Way Too Slow to Explain Instant Learning
A Bullet to Their Brains Caused Little Mind Damage
She "Seemed Entirely Undamaged in Mental Capacity" After They Removed Half Her Brain
They Had Good Minds After Losing the Left Half of Their Brains
Neurons Are Just as Active During Sleep, Contrary to "Brains Make Minds" Claims

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