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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 8, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Medicine
Tagged
, American history, children, courts, deaths, embryos, IVF, law, legislators, parents, Steven Novella, Yale University}

Are IVF Human Embryos “Children”?

_{Michael Egnor
March 8, 2024

Bioethics, Ethics, Medicine

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Recently, the Alabama Supreme Court ruled that human embryos accidentally killed in an IVF clinic mishap are considered children under Alabama law. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain damage, chess, computer, knowledge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, memories, memory, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, philosophers}

Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain; Here’s Why

_{Michael Egnor
February 29, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the “storage” of non-physical entities. Philosophers like to call that a "category error." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 22, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, behavior, belief, brains, choice, Clarence Darrow, Darwinian evolution, faith, free will, human beings, Jerry Coyne, Ludwig Wittgenstein, materialists, meaning, philosophers, physiology, Politics, rain, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris}

Reply to Free Will Deniers: Show Me

_{Michael Egnor
February 22, 2024

Bioethics, Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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If you carelessly dent a genuine free will denier’s car in a parking lot, he wouldn’t hold you responsible any more than he’d hold your car responsible. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain states, death, dreams, hippocampus, knowledge, memories, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, soul, YouTube videos}

Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?

_{Michael Egnor
February 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The answer has implications both for neuroscience and for our deeper understanding of the mind-body relationship. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 30, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, aboutness, Allen Institute for Brain Science, awareness, Christof Koch, consciousness, Franz Brentano, ignorance, intentionality, Ludwig Wittgenstein, neuroscience, panpsychism, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Socrates, subjective experience, wisdom}

Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness

_{Michael Egnor
January 30, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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"Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional — experience.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Chemistry
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, action potentials, Anton Zeilinger, atheism, brain states, cellular metabolism, chance, determinism, evidence, free will, government, Jerry Coyne, justice, logic, love, marriage, molecules, morality, neuroscience, relationships, truth}

Why Free Will Denial Is Self-Refuting

_{Michael Egnor
November 14, 2023

Bioethics, Chemistry, Physical Sciences, Physics

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The only "scientific" basis for the denial of free will is determinism, the theory that every change in nature is determined prior to its occurrence. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, anthropology, atheism, atoms, baboons, Big Bang, cognitive dissonance, determinism, facts, free will, Hamas, Jerry Coyne, Kenya, libertarian free will, Moral Law, murder, nature, neurotransmitters, Robert Sapolsky, soul, Stanford University, tornado, war, Why Evolution Is True}

Evolutionist Jerry Coyne Has a Puzzling View on Hamas

_{Michael Egnor
October 23, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The moral atrocity committed by Hamas seems not to have diminished Professor Coyne’s passion for atheism, determinism, and free will denial. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 20, 2023

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, Darwinian mechanisms, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, evolution, free will, information, Justine Sergent, logic, McGill University, mind, neuroscience, patients, PZ Myers, Roger Sperry, split brain, Yair Pinto}

My Question for P. Z. Myers: How Did Human Consciousness “Evolve”?

_{Michael Egnor
October 20, 2023

Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics, Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Human consciousness entails a unique ability to think abstractly — to reason, to think logically, to use language, to do mathematics, to exercise free will. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, atheism, benevolence, Charles Darwin, creation myth, Darwinism, determinism, eugenics, evil, Gaza, genes, genocide, good, Hamas, Holocaust, human nature, humanity, Israel, Moral Law, morality, music, natural selection, neurotransmitters, rape, relativism, selfish genes, slaughter, sterilization, William Shakespeare}

From Hamas, a Moment of Clarity about Darwinism and More

_{Michael Egnor
October 19, 2023

Arts, Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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The real test of a worldview is not merely what it explains, but what it makes us deny. Atheism makes us deny objective moral law. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 8, 2023

Categories
Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, appetite, brain, Brown University, Cartesian dualism, Christianity, consciousness, emotion, evolution, eye, intellect, Kenneth Miller, materialism, memory, mind-brain problem, neuroscience, perception, René Descartes, res cogitans, res extensa, Roman Catholic, sensations, soul, The Human Instinct, Thomas Aquinas}

Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
March 8, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes. Read More ›