Friday, October 29, 2021

Panpsychism Arguments Involve an Equivocation Fallacy

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One of the main type of argumentative fallacies is what is called the equivocation fallacy. A web page states, "The fallacy of equivoca...
Friday, October 22, 2021

Why Neuroscience Hasn't Delivered for Psychiatry

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Recently a scholar lamented how little progress neuroscience is making.  She  stated the following: "Given the massive investment of p...
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021

NIH Bets $1,434,188 That Synapses Don't Store Memories

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In tod ay's news we read a press release from the National Institute of Health entitled "NIH supports 106 grants featuring high-ri...
Tuesday, September 21, 2021

They Wrote As They Would Have Written If Brains Don't Store Memories

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Recently www.gizmodo.com asked a set of brain experts and technologists the question "Will it be possible to upload information to my ...
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Thursday, September 2, 2021

The Inaccuracy of Electronic or Mechanical Metaphors for the Brain

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Humans love to try to make metaphorical comparisons for things in biology,  but most of these metaphors give the wrong idea. Often an organi...
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Thursday, August 12, 2021

A New Case of Very Large Brain Damage and Normal Mental Function

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In this blog I have discussed many cases of normal or near-normal mental function despite massive brain damage. For example, in the post her...
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Wednesday, August 11, 2021

Study Group Sizes, Neuroscience and COVID-19

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On this blog I have frequently complained about the way-too-small study group sizes used so often in neuroscience studies.  This is one of t...