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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abortion, baby, birth, children, Christof Koch, consciousness, dreaming, fetuses, hard problem of consciousness, Integrated information theory, neuroscience, newborn, pregnancy, Robert Wright, Thomas Nagel, Trinity College Dublin}

Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

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October 20, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, Africa, Casey Luskin, consciousness, evolutionary biology, fish, fossil record, gestation, Gregory Chaitin, hominins, human intelligence, human mind, human origins, Israel, meat, mollusks, Neanderthals, pain, poetry, pseudoscience, tools}

The Human Mind Has No History

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October 19, 2023

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 17, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, apes, babies, chimpanzees, experimentation, human mind, humans, materialism, parents, Smithsonian Magazine}

When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together

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October 17, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 10, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, After Death, angels, Bruce Greyson, death, Gary Habermas, Heaven, immortality, jesus, Michael Egnor, Minding the Brain, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, nurses, Oxford University Press, psychiatry, spaghetti}

Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?

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October 10, 2023

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 8, 2023

Categories
Environment & Climate
Medicine
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academic freedom, Anthony Fauci, China, City Journal, COVID-19, First Amendment, free speech, Internet, James B. Meigs, Jay Bhattacharya, media, Mind Matters, science media, skepticism, Stanford University, Tablet, Wall Street Journal, Wuhan}

How Media Helped to Corrupt Science

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October 8, 2023

Environment & Climate, Medicine, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science! Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 3, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstractions, animals, birds, cats, cuttlefish, dolphins, dreaming, horses, information, learning, memory, rapid eye movement, sleep, Smithsonian Magazine, spiders, thought, whales}

Dreaming Animals and Human Exceptionalism

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October 3, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Researchers have detected something like REM (rapid eye movement) sleep — which is associated with dreaming in humans — in jumping spiders. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arms, behavior, brain, consciousness, information, intelligence, jellyfish, learning, lions, marine biologists, nervous system, neurons, neuroscientists, octopuses, orcas, University of Washington, wolves}

Octopus Intelligence — A Challenge for Evolution

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October 2, 2023

Botany, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 1, 2023

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, Darwinism, EMBO Reports, emotions, infection, intelligence, panpsychism, random mutations, spirituality, Tel Aviv University, teleology, Third Way of Evolution, University of Heidelberg, ZME Science}

Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Beings?

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October 1, 2023

Botany, Life Sciences, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bioengineering, birds, cells, communication, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, human body, human consciousness, humans, illusion, insects, Integrated information theory, intelligence, jellyfish, Macquarie University, Michael Levin, Nature (journal), octopuses, panpsychism, physicalism, Tufts University, University of Montreal}

Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

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September 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 19, 2023

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, cosmic fine-tuning, Dartmouth College, Durham University, Elsevier, hospitals, Marcelo Gleiser, near-death experiences, NYU, persistent vegetative state, Philip Goff, researchers, Sam Parnia, Scientific American}

Study: Brain Is Still Active After Death

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September 19, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Obviously, these experiences point to something that is irrelevant to claims about evolution. Read More ›