Wednesday, January 16, 2008

The Mind and the Brain

Steven Novella goes again into the woo and also the connect between dualist and creationist.

My favorite creationist neurosurgeon, Dr. Michael Egnor, has written a rebuttal to my previous post criticizing the dualism of Deepak Chopra. His rebuttal is very revealing about the disconnect between dualists - those who think that the mind is something more than and separate from the brain, and materialist neuroscientists - those who think that the functioning of the brain is an adequate explanation for the phenomenon of mind. Egnor illustrates, although it seems inadvertently, that the real difference is that between science and philosophy.

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