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Take, for instance, the case of pain as an example of conscious experience. Distinguished philosopher of mind Jaegwon Kim writes, in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, that anti-physicalists have adduced the argument that “even if, say, pain should turn out to have a single neural-physical correlate across all organisms and other possible pain-capable systems, how could the painfulness of pain be a neurobiological property? In moving from the mental to the physical, we lose, it has been argued, what’s distinctively mental about mental properties...

Author: By Zachary S. Podolsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The Psychiatric Soul Train | 3/1/2002 | See Source »

...funny,” he lied. Another threw a temper tantrum after two successive balls landed in the gutter. Enraged, she flung her next four shots down the lane without even looking. This might have been less upsetting if she had not scored higher with those balls than one companion did all evening. He would stride up to the lane, confident and focused, and then proceed to roll the ball feebly into the gutter like a mildly palsied...

Author: By Anthony S. A. freinberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Night Out | 2/28/2002 | See Source »

...more than a mere scientific breakthrough. The news, which broke first in the Wall Street Journal, caught the eye of entrepreneurs. Each year millions of pets die in the U.S., leaving behind plenty of well-heeled owners who would be willing to pay top dollar to replace their beloved companion. Genetic Savings & Clone already offers to freeze pet DNA for future cloning, charging a one-time fee of $895 plus $100 a year for storage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Here, Kitty, Kitty! | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...Commonwealth, don't kneel before the monarch, and so Rudy stayed upright. Giuliani received a silver cross and a star pin, but despite being compared to Winston Churchill during the blitz, he is not entitled to affix an official "Sir" before his name. Later he and his companion JUDITH NATHAN took in the sights and met Prime Minister Tony Blair. Visiting with members of Parliament, Giuliani offered some tips on how to combat London's rising crime rate. With few squeegee men in London, it's going to be tough...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Feb. 25, 2002 | 2/25/2002 | See Source »

...Return each week to time.com/webguide for the companion to the current issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weekly Web Guide | 2/15/2002 | See Source »

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