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Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, assumptions, bank account, brain, chimpanzee genome, Chronicles Magazine, consciousness, human mind, John Zmirak, materialism, materialists, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgery, Reductionism, Roman Catholics, science, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Science Without Materialism: Yes, It Would Still Work

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September 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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What if we assume that our minds really are immaterial? Math still adds up, physics and chemistry are still true, logic still works. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Biola University, brain, coincidences, deception, Gary Habermas, materialist explanations, mind, mistakes, naturalistic explanations, near-death experiences, numbers, patients, Sean McDowell, YouTube channels}

Near-Death Experiences Cannot Just Be Explained Away

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September 8, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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In some cases, patients who had NDEs while in a state of clinical death report dates and numbers that are later found to be accurate, Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, books, China, computer program, data, dog, Human, Immanuel Kant, Johns Hopkins University, love, memories, mortality, movies, neuroscience, philosophy, Ray Kurzweil, reason, simulation, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Nagel, Werner Heisenberg, William Egginton}

Your Mind Uploaded to AI Would Not Be You

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September 5, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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In death, the immortal mind, whose memories the computer supposedly holds, has moved on. The simulation may be a good one but it is not a surviving self. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 3, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, cancel culture, citations, dissent, equity, geography, language, languages, minorities, Nature (journal), private truth, Research, scholars, transparency}

Oh, Brother: Now It’s Bringing “Equity” to Scientific Citations

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September 3, 2025

Ethics, Scientific Reasoning

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Some want “papers to include the proportions of citations in terms of the gender and race or ethnicity of the referenced authors.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Reproductive Science
Tagged
, biology, cancel culture, creationism, Holocaust denial, human biology, lawgiver, Michael Shermer, mind, private truth, realism, Richard Dawkins, sex binary, Skeptic Magazine, subjectivism, transgenderism, war on math, Wikipedia}

Evolutionist: Eight Reasons Sex in Humans Is Binary

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September 2, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Reproductive Science

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Skeptics will eventually be forced to confront the problem: They posit laws with no lawgiver, principles with no foundation, minds from mud. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, bank account, body, brain, currency, doctors, electrons, Labor Day, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, password, Saint Augustine, The Immortal Mind}

Lots of Real Things Are Immaterial; Here Are a Few

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August 30, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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I have a bank account. That means I have a bank card and a password. Also a checkbook. Are those items “the account?” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

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August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Science Reporting
Tagged
, American Medical Association, Arthur Caplan, Eric Weinstein, John Horgan, Lawrence Krauss, mastectomies, media, mental illness, New York University, News, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Robert Sapolsky, Royal Society, Sabine Hossenfelder, science communicators, Sean Carroll, The Daily Wire, The End of Science, transgenderism, trust}

Science Struggles with Reality as Crises Rock Disciplines

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August 27, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Science Reporting

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There seems to be little relationship between many science writers’ current concerns and the reasons that public trust in science has been steadily declining. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, antiquity, brain, Christof Koch, Christopher Hitchens, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, eliminative materialism, evolutionary psychology, Four Horsemen, free will, human consciousness, human mind, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, philosophers, promissory materialism, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, technology, The Immortal Mind}

Reassessing Daniel Dennett on Consciousness as an Illusion

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August 27, 2025

Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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It is a waste of time to pretend that consciousness is simply an “amazing collection of almost mundane tricks in the brain.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 26, 2025

Categories
Physics
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, Eric Weinstein, ethics, government, groupthink, Johns Hopkins University, physicists, physics, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, predictions, quantum gravity, Sabine Hossenfelder, Sean Carroll, theoretical physicists, trust}

Exposed: The Flakiness and Groupthink that Plague Physics

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August 26, 2025

Physics, Scientific Reasoning

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This episode is worth keeping in mind when we hear pundits complain that the public doesn’t trust science or that government doesn’t support it enough. Read More ›