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Paul Crowley

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Why “Minds Aren’t Magic”?

A lot of people straightforwardly believe that minds are magic: that our decision making is not simply the result of electricity and biochemistry in neurons and synapses in the brain, but at the core is the product of an immortal soul. This, of course, I reject. But it seems to me that a lot ofContinue reading “Why “Minds Aren’t Magic”?”

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