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Materialism and Reductionism

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What Consciousness Is Not

Raymond Tallis unwinds the work of David Chalmers, philosopher of mind

A Far Other Butterfly

Wilfred M. McClay on “The Artist of the Beautiful” and the meeting of the spiritual and material realms

Evolution and the Illusion of Randomness

Stephen L. Talbott on survival, fitness, and the purposiveness of organisms

What Do Organisms Mean?

Steve Talbott on how life speaks at every level

What Neuroscience Cannot Tell Us About Ourselves

Raymond Tallis debunks the tropes of “neuromythology”

The Unbearable Wholeness of Beings

Steve Talbott confronts the language of organism-as-machine

Getting Over the Code Delusion

Steve Talbott on epigenetics and the demise of DNA as destiny

How Can I Possibly Be Free?

Raymond Tallis on the neuroscientific case against free will, and why it’s wrong

Disenchanting Determinism

Caitrin Nicol reviews novels by Richard Powers and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein

Why Minds Are Not Like Computers

Ari N. Schulman on fundamental confusion about artificial intelligence

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