Brains Blog Roundtable: Free Energy Principle, Consciousness, Realism and Illusionism

List of some of the papers and books discussed: [embedded content] Friston, K. (2014). Active inference and agency. Cognitive Neuroscience, 5(2), 119–121. https://doi.org/10.1080/17588928.2014.905517 Dr. Wanja Wiese https://homepage.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/wanja.wiese/ Dołęga, K., & Dewhurst, J. E. (2020). Fame in the predictive brain: a…

Cross Post: Dutch Government to Expand Euthanasia Law to Include Children Aged One to 12 – An Ethicist’s View

The Dutch proposal is different to the law in Belgium. In 2014, Belgium removed a lower age limit for accessing voluntary euthanasia. In a study commissioned by the Dutch health ministry and released in 2019, researchers investigated the deaths of…