Does the Brain Think?

Faculty burnout: Does anyone think of that?

Background: Job burnout is one of the factors that decrease the productivity of university faculty members. This is important for teachers who are a critical element of the educational system. Failure to pay attention to environmental and organizational factors as well as psychological and personality traits in professors will lead to adverse effects on their mental health, inc...

Brain Projects Think Big

BIG BANG HUMAN BRAIN The universe started with the Big Bang some 13,500 million (billion) years ago. Then very recently, about 200,000 years ago, another " Big Bang " happened – Homo sapiens appeared on earth. It has many genetic similarities with other species such as the chimpanzee and, even more so, with other hominids such as the Neanderthals who lived with us until 30,000 or so years ago. ...

Motor Coordination: Watching the brain think

Recording from populations of neurons in motor areas of the cerebral cortex has brought us a step closer to understanding how we control the movement of our own bodies.

Does ‘Ought’ Imply ‘Can’? And Did Kant Think It Does?

What Does the Nation of China Think About Phenomenal States?

Critics of functionalism about the mind often rely on the intuition that collectivities cannot be conscious in motivating their positions. In this paper, we consider the merits of appealing to the intuition that there is nothing that it’s like to be a collectivity. We demonstrate that collective mentality is not an affront to commonsense, and we report evidence that demonstrates that the intuit...