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. Don't forget to help us create more videos! We need your support: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5qDet6sa6rODi7t6wfpg8g/join 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: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/functional-correlates-of-musical-and-visual-ability-in-frontotemporal-dementia/5B25DC8A533939585E52562F7E42596B Emergence of artistic talent in frontotemporal dementia: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/13503841_Emergence_of_artistic_talent_in_frontotemporal_dementia The savant syndrome: An extraordinary condition: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/26293542_The_savant_syndrome_An_extraordinary_condition_A_synopsis_Past_present_future The Idea of the World – Bernardo Kastrup Holotropic Breathwork: The Potential Role of a Prolonged, Voluntary Hyperventilation Procedure as an Adjunct to Psychotherapy: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/5914297_Holotropic_Breathwork_The_Potential_Role_of_a_Prolonged_Voluntary_Hyperventilation_Procedure_as_an_Adjunct_to_Psychotherapy Does Consciousness Disappear in Dreamless Sleep: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1364661316301528 Consciousness lost and found: subjective experiences in an unresponsive state: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/21986366/ Acceleration-induced loss of consciousness. A review of 500 episodes: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2357157/ Mind, Brains, and Science – John Searle Irreducible Mind – Edward Kelly & Emily Kelly Reconstructing Visual Experiences from Brain Activity Evoked by Natural Movies: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982211009377?fbclid=IwAR2y__b5URJwQ7qrrItwDVHogmLm4Apxx3iRDAV5uiiESQSxt0xcW-oXD2o Reconstructing imagined letters from early visual cortex reveals tight topographic correspondence between visual mental imagery and perception: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00429-019-01828-6 Barking up the wrong free: readiness potentials reflect processes independent of conscious will: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23535835/ Neural precursors of decisions that matter––an ERP study of deliberate and arbitrary choice: https://elifesciences.org/articles/39787 Brain preparation before a voluntary action: Evidence against unconscious movement initiation: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053810009001135 Does the Brain ‘Initiate’ Freely Willed Processes? A Philosophy of Science Critique of Libet-type Experiments and Their Interpretation: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0959354312460926 Brain signals do not demonstrate unconscious decision making: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24394375/ Analysis of a choice-reaction task yields a new interpretation of Libet's experiments: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18096261/ Do the models offer testable proposals of brain functions for conscious experience? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9709826/ The Point of No Return in Vetoing Self-Initiated Movements: https://www.pnas.org/content/113/4/1080 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: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8629886/ Movement Intention After Parietal Cortex Stimulation in Humans: https://science.sciencemag.org/content/324/5928/811 Mystery of the Mind – Wilder Penfield Sequential Operation of Disconnected Cerebral Hemispheres in Split-Brain Patients: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7881063/ The Psychology of Attention – Harold Pashler Visual integration in the split brain: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/002839329500032X Bilateral visual cross-integration by human forebrain commissurotomy subjects: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0028393284900599 Perceptual and attentional processes following callosal section in humans: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/0028393287900480 A view of the world from a split-brain perspective – D. W. Zaidel The unity of consciousness and the split-brain syndrome: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/228671741_The_unity_of_consciousness_and_the_split-brain_syndrome Explaining Consciousness: The Hard Problem – Jonathan Shear