Whatever else we are, we are first and foremost our bodies. We sometimes imagine we are spirits inhabiting our bodies. … More
Tag: Descartes
Carroll on Color
In The Big Picture, Sean Carroll is anxious to reject religious ideas of the immortal soul, and this makes him … More
Materialists who don’t mean it: the Dualism of Crick and Koch
Francis Crick opened his book The Astonishing Hypothesis with this salvo: Q: What is the soul? A: The soul is … More
A Tree Falls
In his discussion of the science of color, Steve Palmer pointed out that the problem with color is “reminiscent of … More
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