Alexander Pruss's Blog

Van Inwagen infamously suggested the possibility that at the moment of death God snatches a core chunk of our brain, transports it to a diff...

There are four main families of views of who we are: Bodies (or organisms) Brains (or at least cerebra) Body-soul composites Souls. F...

The Turing test for machine thought has an interrogator communicate (by typing) with a human and a machine both of which try to convince th...

It can be quite useful for someone suffering from a variety of brain conditions, such as obsessive compulsive disorder, to deliberately dist...

The problem of the unity of consciousness for materialists is what makes activity in different areas of the physical mind come together into...

Suppose the cells in my left kidney mutated, and the kidney grew neurons and started engaging in the same sorts of computations that my brai...

The following argument has occurred to me: We are not brains. If we are not brains, our brains do not think. If our brains do not think,...

Plausibly, there is a maximum information density for human brains. This means that if internal mental states supervene on the information c...

If physicalism is true, then the nature of human beings is probably essentially tied to the nature of our brains, which in turn is essential...

Animalists hold that we are animals. It is widely accepted by animalists that if a brain were removed from a body, and the body kept ali...

Suppose your cerebrum was removed from your skull and placed in a vat in such a way that its neural functioning continued. So the...

Here is a hypothesis: A mature neuro-science will, as the eliminativists claim, have no room for concepts like "belief", ...