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Neuroscientists have to work with the assumption that the mesh between brain activity and behaviour is very...
A definition of 'emergence'. As systems become complex, behaviour emerges...
An explanation of the two types of emergence.
Many of our choices are influenced by unconscious processes...
Bill Newsome explains the evidence so far. But don’t forget that we should expect to find neurological correlates...
For Bill Newsome, science is concerned mostly with mechanism, while religion deals with other questions, such...
Bill Newsome discusses the idea that no science will ever provide proof for God - but that's ok, many important...
Some people try to reduce our everyday experience to the level of biological mechanism. But different levels of...
Our brains shape us by constraining the kinds of things we are able to do - but, says Bill Newsome, we also have...
There is some evidence that our genes do have some effect on our personality and talents. But what effect do our...
Within our law structure we have always had provisions for people who we view as not being responsible because...
Some would say that freedom of choice is an illusion. But Bill Newsome argues that to reduce personal realities...
The spectre of determinism is unnerving for a Christian view of what it means to be human. But this is not a new...
Any neuroscientist knows how much our biology determines our behaviour. But is behaviour 'just'...
Bill Newsome explains how, for him, questions such as, 'It is better to live or die?' show that science cannot answer...
Are we just an evolutionary accident, or is there a purpose to life? Bill Newsome describes how his Christian faith...
John Polkinghorne and Stanford neurobiologist Bill Newsome discuss the relationship between brain matter...
There is a passage in the Bible (Job 38 & 39) where God addresses a man, challenging him on his...
An explanation of a big problem in physics - is the behaviour of every system determined by its smallest...