I just got back from the 2010 Desiring God Conference for Pastors. First things first. The weather was horrible arriving to the conference. I’m convinced that if we had traveled two hours later this past Monday (Feb. 1), the slush and snow would have turned into ice and we wouldn’t have made it (at least [...]

The other night I finally watched Surrogates (2009)  starring Bruce Willis. The story takes place several decades in the future and essentially portrays 21st century society as a giant “grid” of humanoid robots that take the place of natural human bodies. Through the advances of neuroscience, the human mind can control machines, and through more [...]

Excerpts from the mailbag: …And because of the naturalistic worldview of the majority in my country (France, be merciful if my english is not fine…) or through the web, debate about the brain/mind relation arrived quite often. So, several times it crossed my mind that I have to know more about science in that domain. [...]

OK, to prep for the next upcoming and extremely controversial post on neurophilosophy (which is on information theory and cognition; both of which challenge the materialistic worldview just like logic does), it’s time for a quiz… Please leave your comments in response to each of these questions: 1. What is information? 2. Is information material/physical? [...]

In line with the distinctive principles of RealApologetics.org, I’d like to present to you my original thoughts concerning Neurophilosophy. I understand the subject is not a very common one in theological or apologetic circles. However, I do believe it is and will become a far more important topic (and more threatening one) than Intelligent Design, [...]

(Oct. 16, 2009) — By directly manipulating the activity of individual neurons, scientists have given flies memories of a bad experience they never really had, according to a report in the October 16th issue of the journal Cell, a Cell Press publication. Before looking at this subject a little more, perhaps I should remind readers [...]

The problem with neurology is to understand man himself. – Wilder Penfield Concurrent with the last post on mind-control, it was recently announced that scientists successfully created the first-ever, remote controlled and accurate-flying beetle. That’s right, Hirotaka Sato at the University of Berkeley, wired up and attached a chip to the beetle’s body that sends [...]