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Closer To Truth is highlighting remarkable women advancing philosophy and neuro/cognitive science.

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What’s the relationship between the mental activity of our minds and the physical actions of our brain? It’s called The Mind-Body Problem. To many, it’s a perennial...

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Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?

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Can art inform the classic mind-body problem? While the relationship between mental activity and physical brain continues to baffle, can the existence and process of art...

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Art and the Philosophy of Mind

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How special is the human mind? What is human mind compared to animal minds? These questions have long vexed philosophers. Now, if God exists, would these questions change? If...

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Dualism claims reality has two parts, a physical and a nonphysical (mental or spiritual), both equally real. Dualism is believed by most people but rejected by most...

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Does the mind work like a computer? Are mental processes the product of computation in that information processing is the essence of mind or consciousness? This view is...

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Computational Theory of the Mind

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Brain Structure and Function

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How brain enhancements can correct disabilities are important questions. But not Closer To Truth questions. What happens to personal identity? Would "I" still be me? What...

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What Would Transhuman Brains Mean?

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Transhuman brains are the melding of hyper-advanced electronics and super-artificial intelligence (AI) with neurobiological tissue. The goal is not only to repair injury and...

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Transhuman Brains?

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How do injured brains help explain normal brains? One of the most powerful ways of learning about normal brain function is to examine what functions are lost when parts or...

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What does brain damage do to people? By observing strange behaviors in brain-impaired patients, scientists discern how normal brains works For example, what happens to “the...

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When Brains Go Bad?

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Stress triggers sickness, shortens life. Tranquility promotes wellness, lengthens life. How we think affects how we feel. Psychosomatic medicine is modern medicine. But what...

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Brains are the fleshy masses of nerve cells and supporting systems in our skulls. All animals have brains of one kind or another. So what are brains? How do they function?...

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What are Brains?

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What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings and emotions? How do diverse arts...

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Can the Brain Explain Art?

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The mind consists of sensations, thoughts, cogitations, intentions, feelings. How could these inner mental capacities, these felt experiences, be produced by the three pounds...

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How can aesthetics be explained by the brain and its underlying biological, chemical, and physical processes? Neuroscience is explaining ever more about art, but will...

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Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience

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What is happening in our brains when we perceive and appreciate the arts? What are the neural substrates of artistic sensations, feelings and emotions? How do diverse arts...

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Brains are conscious. The heart is not. What does the brain do that the heart does not do? How does it come to be that brains generate inner subjective experience, the movies...

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Is consciousness a scientific problem to be solved? Or a philosophical problem that will remain a mystery? What do scientists who study the brain think? And why do they think...

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Elements of Mind

What can we learn about art by studying perception, cognition, emotion? And what can we learn about perception, cognition, emotion by studying art?

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How Does Art Affect Perception, Cognition, Emotion?

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How does the mind work? It’s not obvious. Where does the mind stop and the rest of the world begin? What is extended mind? What is embodied mind?

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What is Extended Mind?

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What does it mean to claim that the mind extends beyond the brain in some meaningful way? Can objects in the external environment, such as a computer or even a notebook,...

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What is Extended Mind?

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Why the tension between consciousness, my inner experience, and language, enabling thought and culture? Does consciousness cause language? Or language cause consciousness?

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How do Language and Consciousness Relate?

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What’s the relationship between language and consciousness? Which comes first? Does consciousness enable language? Or does language give rise to consciousness? What...

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‘Self awareness’ has a simple definition: the mental activity that reflects back on itself, the mental process of being aware of oneself being aware. Is...

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Mind-Body Problems

Explore themes of Mind-Body Problems:

The Mind-Body Problem

Women in Philosophy and Neuro/Cognitive Science

Can Art Clarify The Mind-Body Problem?

Art and the Philosophy of Mind

What is Human Mind in a Theistic World?

Can Dualism Explain Consciousness?

Computational Theory of the Mind

Brain Structure and Function

What Would Transhuman Brains Mean?

Transhuman Brains?

When Brains Go Bad (Part 2)

When Brains Go Bad?

Can the Mind Heal the Body?

What are Brains?

Brain Explains Mind?

Can the Brain Explain Art?

Does Brain Make Mind? (Part II)

Aesthetics: Physics and Neuroscience

Neuroaesthetics: How the Brain Explains Art

How are Brains Conscious?

How Brain Scientists Think About Consciousness

Elements of Mind

How Does Art Affect Perception, Cognition, Emotion?

What is Extended Mind?

What is Extended Mind?

How do Language and Consciousness Relate?

Language and Consciousness

What is Self-Awareness?