The novel antidepressant ketamine has been shown to achieve what most classic antidepressants, such as Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitors, have not been able to. A rapid onset of symptomatic improvement across multiple domains; mood, anhedonia, and suicidal ideation. The exact neuropsychopharmacological mechanisms of this unique phenomenon are still unknown, although many theories are...
In this essay I explore whether the mind is ever constituted by processes that are not in the brain. I interrogate whether the processes of remembering when typing words on a keyboard are all processes done by the brain, suggesting that perhaps the hands do some of the remembering themselves. We typically think of remembering as a minded activity, and therefore it would seem that the processes...