More Than Matter

A Review of Minding the Brain

I’m an editor for Discovery Institute Press, and one day last year a friend at church asked what I’d been doing at work lately. “We’re putting the final touches on a book where twenty-five experts in different fields weigh in on the relationship between the mind and the brain,” I told her.

She looked perplexed. “But the mind and the brain are the same thing,” she said. “Aren’t they?”

That’s the question addressed in the first big section of Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science (2023, 490 pages plus three online-only chapters).

The Mind-Body Problem

First, a clarification: The...