A Review of Minding the Brain
I’m an editor for Discovery Institute Press, and one day last year a friend at church asked what I’d been doing at work lately. “We’re putting the final touches on a book where twenty-five experts in different fields weigh in on the relationship between the mind and the brain,” I told her.
She looked perplexed. “But the mind and the brain are the same thing,” she said. “Aren’t they?”
That’s the question addressed in the first big section of Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science (2023, 490 pages plus three online-only chapters).
The Mind-Body Problem
First, a clarification: The...
PhD, is an editor for the Discovery Institute and the author of four dystopian novels and many shorter works, both fiction and non-fiction. Before turning to editing, she taught as an adjunct English and humanities professor. She and her husband homeschooled their three children.
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