Physicalist Arguments Debunked: Irreducible Mind (Part 3)
Do the Libet Experiments support the belief the brain creates consciousness? How about split-brain patients or brain damage? We address all that and more in this video.
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Sources:
The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism – Jonathan J. Loose, Angus J. L. Menuge, J. P. Moreland
More Than Matter – Keith Ward
Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine – William James
Functional correlates of musical and visual ability in frontotemporal dementia:
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...
Emergence of artistic talent in frontotemporal dementia:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
The savant syndrome: An extraordinary condition:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
The Idea of the World – Bernardo Kastrup
Holotropic Breathwork: The Potential Role of a Prolonged, Voluntary Hyperventilation Procedure as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy:
https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Consciousness lost and found: subjective experiences in an unresponsive state:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21986...
Acceleration-induced loss of consciousness. A review of 500 episodes:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2357157/
Mind, Brains, and Science – John Searle
Irreducible Mind – Edward Kelly & Emily Kelly
Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Reconstructing imagined letters from early visual cortex reveals tight topographic correspondence between visual mental imagery and perception:
https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Barking up the wrong free: readiness potentials reflect processes independent of conscious will:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23535...
Neural precursors of decisions that matter––an ERP study of deliberate and arbitrary choice:
https://elifesciences.org/articles/39787
Brain preparation before a voluntary
action: Evidence against unconscious movement initiation:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Does the Brain ‘Initiate’ Freely
Willed Processes? A Philosophy of Science Critique of Libet-type Experiments
and Their Interpretation:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...
Brain signals do not demonstrate
unconscious decision making:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24394...
Analysis of a choice-reaction task yields a new interpretation of Libet's experiments:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18096...
Do the models offer testable proposals of brain functions for conscious experience?
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9709826/
The Point of No Return in Vetoing Self-Initiated Movements:
https://www.pnas.org/content/113/4/1080
The Mind and the Brain – Jeffery Schwartz & Sharon Begley
Systematic Changes in Cerebral Glucose
Metabolic Rate After Successful Behavior Modification Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8629886/
Movement Intention After Parietal Cortex Stimulation in Humans:
https://science.sciencemag.org/conten...
Mystery of the Mind – Wilder Penfield
Sequential Operation of Disconnected Cerebral Hemispheres in Split-Brain
Patients:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7881063/
The Psychology of Attention – Harold Pashler
Visual integration in the split brain:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Bilateral visual cross-integration by human forebrain commissurotomy subjects:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
Perceptual and attentional processes following callosal section in humans: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...
A view of the world from a
split-brain perspective – D. W. Zaidel
The unity of consciousness and the split-brain syndrome: https://www.researchgate.net/publicat...
Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem – Jonathan Shear