1. Exploring the connections…. NeurosciencePhilosophy

2. What causes and controls this?

3. What causes and controls these?

4. What causes and controls this?

5. You and Your Brain are matter, like everything else. So, what is consciousness?

6. Some Basic Questions What is reality? How do we decide what is true? What’s the better choice, Conservatism or Liberalism? What are right and wrong?

7. Some Basic Questions What is reality? How do we decide what is true? What’s the better choice, Conservatism or Liberalism? What are right and wrong?

8. Political Neuroscience More or less open to new ideas, new experiences, new people More or less empathetic to strangers and foreigners More loyal to family and nation More commited to traditional morals (Amygdala) (Insula)

9. The Brain & IQ T here are lots of recent studies that have tried to estimate IQ from MRI or EEG readings (sometimes called “neurometric” IQ); many of the teams are based in South Korea and Malaysia. The Malaysian group, based at the MARA University of Technology, has published about a dozen papers over the past two years, involving hundreds of subjects. They can now use EEG readings to sort subjects into one of seven IQ ranges (e.g. 90-100, 120-130) with 83% accuracy; this figure jumps to 98% when subjects are sorted into one of three IQ ranges (low, medium, or high). The South Korean researchers, at Seoul National University, have been combining MRI and fMRI scans to predict IQ scores, and in late 2012 they were granted a patent for their “neurobiological method for measuring human intelligence,” which can explain up to 55% of the variance between individual IQ scores. An example (from Dec 2013) is at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/…

10. Decision-Making the Cornerstone of Philosophy? Do subconscious ideas and emotions affect conscious decision-making? Dan Ariely Do our brains actually decide some things before we do? Do emotions affect decision-making? Antonio Dimasio

11. Causal Determinism has a long history in Philosophy "We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain moment would know all forces that set nature in motion, and all positions of all items of which nature is composed, if this intellect were also vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.” Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1814 “Determinism: The world is governed by (or is under the sway of) determinism if and only if, given a specified way things are at a time t, the way things go thereafter is fixed as a matter of natural law.” Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2003

12. Do Humans Have Free Will?

13. What is Real? Neuroscience and Ontology