• A Crisis of Consciousness, Part One ---
    This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series The Human Mind

    Do I think or does my brain think? – Is my joy I feel while passing my exams only a bio-chemical reaction in my brain? – Is love only a matter of a chemical bodily reaction to another being’s scent? – Is my jealousy only due to a misconfiguration in my brain? – Is paedophilia just a question of the wrong neurons firing in the wrong place? [...]

  • A Crisis of Consciousness, Part Two ---
    This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series The Human Mind

    We have seen how Steven Pinker synthesizes the last decades of neurophysiological research and the theoretical problems philosophy has had with them.
    While addressing the Hard problem of consciousness Pinker neglected to offer the side of John Searle who had addressed physical reduction conscious states to neuronal patterns for quite a while now. This is the underlying problem with Pinker’s article. He simply picks what he likes and leaves out 50% (read 90%) out of the picture.[...]

  • A Crisis of Consciousness, Part Three ---
    This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series The Human Mind

    I left off in my last post with the following question regarding Steven Pinker’s style in his latest article: Why? Where lies the reason for the continuous omissions of critical questioning of modern neuro-research findings? I will add another one here: What is he trying to accomplish? [...]

  • Matter and Consciousness ---
    This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series The Human Mind

    There is a silence that destroys you. That annihilates everything you stand for, everything you fought for, all the pains you’ve endured and that made you. This kind of silence is a rejection of everything that you are and you’ve been. It’s a weird thing that silence which is the absence of something – namely [...]

  • Solitude ---

    There is a silence that destroys you. That annihilates everything you stand for, everything you fought for, all the pains you’ve endured and that made you. This kind of silence is a rejection of everything that you are and you’ve been. It’s a weird thing that silence which is the absence of something – namely [...]

  • Blog Award: Me? Are you talking to me? ---

    There is a silence that destroys you. That annihilates everything you stand for, everything you fought for, all the pains you’ve endured and that made you. This kind of silence is a rejection of everything that you are and you’ve been. It’s a weird thing that silence which is the absence of something – namely [...]

  • A Building Silence ---

    There is a silence that destroys you. That annihilates everything you stand for, everything you fought for, all the pains you’ve endured and that made you. This kind of silence is a rejection of everything that you are and you’ve been. It’s a weird thing that silence which is the absence of something – namely [...]