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Our purpose here at RationalWiki includes:
- Analyzing and refuting pseudoscience and the anti-science movement.
- Analyzing and refuting crank ideas.
- Explorations of authoritarianism and fundamentalism.
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| Non-materialist neuroscience
Non-materialist neuroscience is the latest front in the war on science. The battle has been a long time coming and it is surprising it has taken so long to get going. Modern neuroscience is rapidly reducing much of human thought, emotion and behavior into component pieces of neuronal interactions. The combination of computational modeling and non-invasive imaging of living brains has allowed researchers to begin describing how complex thought emerges from the firing patterns of neurons. In a way, neuroscience is the death knell of dualism. When materialist causes become both necessary and sufficient to explain all of human thought then parsimony dictates that references to a soul or other supernatural entities can be tossed out.
Non-materialist neuroscience is a reaction to these discoveries, a rallying cry for dualism. Like ..→ read the entire article
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What is going on? ("WIGO")[Edit]
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| Need to know What Is Going On? We present regularly updated selections of the finest lunacy the internet has to offer. Participate in the dialogue on the good, the bad, and the ugly!
Article of the Weak: Serpent Space Gods Who Use Numerology and Crop Circles
- It is time once again for your weakly dose of disturbed guy gets his hands on an old webpage development program and goes to town with it.
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