Pages Tagged with #consciousness

The Illusion of Choice: Free Will and Determinism, in the following sections:

• 3.2. Decisions to Act Occur 0.3 Seconds Before We Are Conscious of Them
• 3.3. Moments of Insight Detectable 8 Seconds Before They Become Conscious
• 2. Dualism: What if Our Minds Are Not Physical?

Pseudoscience and Health: The World of Alternatives (to Truth), in the following sections:

• 3.6. Baffled by Convincing Pseudoscience (Example: quantum physics)
• 3.5. The Enthusiasm of Amateurs: Freethought Without Skeptical Thinking Leads to Deception

Emotions Are Biological: How Biochemistry and Neurology Account for Feelings, in the following sections:

• 6. The Limbic System
• Top of page / intro

Souls do not Exist: Evidence from Science & Philosophy Against Mind-Body Dualism, in the following sections:

• 2. The Emergence of Consciousness Out of Complexity
• 1. The Physical Brain is the Source of Emotions, Personality and Memory

The Inevitability of Life: The Universe is Fine-Tuned for No-one!

Causes of Belief in the Afterlife and Differences Across Religions and Cultures: 6. There Are No Souls

Consciousness as an Emergent Property

Pantheism: 4. The Gaia Hypothesis and Emergent Properties

Split Brain Studies: One Mind per Hemisphere

Quantum Physics Pseudo-scientific Theory of Soul

Will We Be Able to Transfer Human Consciousness to the Internet?

The Limbic System: The Source of Emotions in the Human Brain

The Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock: 1. Is Gaia a Coherent Concept?