Philosophy Category
The Ethics of Neuromodulation for Consciousness Exploration
Posted on June 14, 2014 Leave a Comment
In 1641 Rene Descartes sat, ball of wax in hand, pondering the flexibility of material states and how such impermanence spoke to an object’s essence. Hundreds of years later, cognitive neuroscientists are probing into the recesses of the human brain, assessing its task-dependent states, and forming hypotheses regarding the underpinnings of its malleability. Just like […]
The Explanatory Gap. Where All The Subtleties Are Derived.
Posted on June 27, 2012 Leave a Comment
I was reading an article in Scientific American this past weekend, tucked away in the “nerds only” section of the already erudite publication. It was about something I’ve thought about a million times, and, after years of proper philosophical thinking and testing on the subject, I’m a little tired of thinking about it. However, that doesn’t […]
