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:

Emergence of artistic talent in frontotemporal dementia:

The savant syndrome: An extraordinary condition:

The Idea of the World – Bernardo Kastrup

Holotropic Breathwork: The Potential Role of a Prolonged, Voluntary Hyperventilation Procedure as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy:

Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep:

Consciousness lost and found: subjective experiences in an unresponsive state:

Acceleration-induced loss of consciousness. A review of 500 episodes:

Mind, Brains, and Science – John Searle

Irreducible Mind – Edward Kelly & Emily Kelly

Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies:

Reconstructing imagined letters from early visual cortex reveals tight topographic correspondence between visual mental imagery and perception:

Barking up the wrong free: readiness potentials reflect processes independent of conscious will:

Neural precursors of decisions that matter––an ERP study of deliberate and arbitrary choice:

Brain preparation before a voluntary action: Evidence against unconscious movement initiation:

Does the Brain ‘Initiate’ Freely Willed Processes? A Philosophy of Science Critique of Libet-type Experiments and Their Interpretation:

Brain signals do not demonstrate unconscious decision making:

Analysis of a choice-reaction task yields a new interpretation of Libet's experiments:

Do the models offer testable proposals of brain functions for conscious experience?

The Point of No Return in Vetoing Self-Initiated Movements:

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:

Movement Intention After Parietal Cortex Stimulation in Humans:

Mystery of the Mind – Wilder Penfield

Sequential Operation of Disconnected Cerebral Hemispheres in Split-Brain Patients:

The Psychology of Attention – Harold Pashler

Visual integration in the split brain:

Bilateral visual cross-integration by human forebrain commissurotomy subjects:

Perceptual and attentional processes following callosal section in humans

A view of the world from a split-brain perspective – D. W. Zaidel

The unity of consciousness and the splitbrain syndrome

Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem – Jonathan Shear