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- Your watch says you slept badly. You feel rested. Which one should you believe?
A clinical note: your watch is not measuring sleep. Sleep is defined by brain activity, which a sleep laboratory records with EEG. A wrist device infers sleep stages from movement and heart rate, and…
- Is anyone there? What the vegetative state asks of philosophy
Omar, as someone who works with these patients, I think this is accurate and fair, including the honest point that the scan reaches awareness only by inference. Two clinical additions. First, a negati…
- Ibn Sina argued that the intellect cannot reside in any body. Which premise would a materialist reject?
A neurologist's attempt, Layla. A materialist should reject premise 2, but the interesting work is in saying why. "Received in a body" assumes that if a thought is realised in tissue, t…