Alva Noë is a contributor to the NPR blog 13.7: Cosmos and Culture. He is writer and a philosopher who works on the nature of mind and human experience. Noë received his PhD from Harvard in 1995 and ...

The most mysterious thing about the human brain is that the more we know about it, the deeper our own mystery becomes. On the one hand, scientists tell us that we are nothing but 3 pounds of ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.54.1.0045 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/philrhet.54.1.0045 Copy URL ABSTRACT The essay explores Alva Noë's theory of ...

Alva Noë is a writer and philosopher in Berkeley, California. He is the author of Out of Our Heads: Why You Are Not Your Brain and Other Lessons From The Biology Of Consciousness (Hill and Wang, 2009) ...

For a decade or so, brain studies have seemed on the brink of answering questions about the nature of consciousness, the self, thought and experience. But they never do, argues University of ...

One reason I'm not worried about the possibility that we will soon make machines that are smarter than us, is that we haven't managed to make machines until now that are smart at all. Artificial ...

Alva Noë wants to knock the brain off its scientific pedestal, where it reigns as maestro of mind and king of consciousness. In his new book, the University of California, Berkeley philosopher offers ...