3 papers in the library · 28 citations · publishing 2021-2024
Front Hum Neurosci March 1, 2024 Tam Hunt, Mostyn Jones, Johnjoe Mcfadden et al. 11 citations
Editorial: Electromagnetic field theories of consciousness: opportunities and obstacles.
Front Psychol June 1, 2023 Mostyn Jones, Tam Hunt 17 citations
How do brains create all our different colors, pains, and other conscious qualities? These various qualia are the most essential aspects of consciousness. Yet standard neuroscience (primarily based on synaptic information processing) has not found the synaptic-firing codes, sometimes described as the “spike code,” to account for how these qualia arise and how they unite to form complex...
TheoLogica July 21, 2021 Mostyn Jones, Eric LaRock
Nancey Murphy argues that God created us as physical beings without immortal souls. She supports this Christian physicalism by arguing that neuroscience can better explain minds in terms of physical information processing than dualists can in problematic nonphysical terms. We reply that Murphy overestimates neuroscience and underestimates dualism. She doesn’t show how neuroscience can explain...