Cadell Last (VUB): Global Brain and the Future of Human Society. Yochai Ataria (HUJI) and Yuval Neria (Columbia): Consciousness-Body-Time: How Do People Think Lacking Their Body? Joshua May (UAB): On the Very Concept of Free Will. Zachary Thomas Martin (FSU): Are We Free? Psychology’s Challenges to Free Will. Manuel Vargas (USF): Neuroscience and the Exaggerated Death of Responsibility. Forgotten pioneers of the science of the mind: Adam Kuper reviews Headhunters: The Search for a Science of the Mind by Ben Shephard. What could be more interesting than how the mind works? Colleen Walsh interviews Steven Pinker. Is there such a thing as the self? Jim Holt reviews Self by Barry Dainton and Me, Myself and Why: Searching for the Science of the Self by Jennifer Ouellette. Consciousness on-off switch has been discovered deep in brain. Matthew R. Francis on how quantum and consciousness often mean nonsense: Lots of things are mysterious — that doesn’t mean they’re connected. Greg Miller goes inside the strange new world of DIY brain stimulation. Mapping the terrain: The introduction to Free Will and Moral Responsibility, ed. Ishtiyaque Haji and Justin Caouette. Does this brain research prove that humiliation is the most intense human emotion? When people are isolated from human contact, their mind can do some truly bizarre things, says Michael Bond — why does this happen? Brawn v brain: Human beings are brainy weaklings. Can the nervous system be hacked? Welcome to the brave new world of bioelectronics: implants that can communicate directly with the nervous system in order to try to fight everything from cancer to the common cold. Are we free? Daniel Dennett on how neuroscience gives the wrong answer. Gabrielle Benette Jackson on neurophilosophy and its discontents: How do we understand consciousness without becoming complicit in that understanding? The introduction to Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep? A Neuroscientific View of the Zombie Brain by Timothy Verstynen and Bradley Voytek.
