Category: Neuroscience & Mind | Page 13 | Science and Culture Today

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, brains, chimpanzees, decision-making, DNA, human brains, humans, language, neurons, neuroscientists, Oxford University, personality, planning, prefrontal cortex, sound, thought}

Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 2, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, brain, brain surgery, Christof Koch, Denyse O'Leary, Integrated information theory, memories, mind, neuroscience, Robert J. Marks II, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Debating the Legacy of Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield

_{Michael Egnor
April 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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How much more evidence is necessary to draw the scientific inference that activation of brain networks is insufficient to generate abstract thought? Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 1, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anesthesia, brain, brain hemispheres, brainstem, cerebellum, cognition, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, hydranencephaly, immortality, Karina Kofman, Michael Levin, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Research, souls, terminal lucidity, thalamus, The Immortal Mind}

We Can Learn About the Mind from Damaged Brains

_{Michael Egnor
April 1, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Now we have solid neuroscience to show that the theologians and philosophers were and are right. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
March 31, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, atheism, autistism, brain, Christianity, Christians, death, Denyse O'Leary, fairy tale, hospitals, Michael Egnor, mind, Minding the Brain, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, religious tradition, Roman Catholic, soul, The Immortal Mind}

A Neurosurgeon’s Intimate Account: How Science Gives Evidence of an Immortal Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
March 31, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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You can pre-order the book now, by May 31, and get a number of free items along with it. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 28, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adulthood, adults, babies, Columbia University, hippocampus, infancy, memory, sci-fi, Science (journal), Yale University}

Why Don’t We Remember Being Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 28, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If we were not conscious, we could hardly have learned all that we had to learn in those first few months of life. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Tagged
, abortion, advance directive, Arthur Caplan, assisted suicide, culture of death, dehydration, disability rights, euthanasia, fluids, food, gender-affirming care, Humanize, Michael Schiavo, parents, pro-life movement, Roe v. Wade, self-starvation and dehydration, Terri Schiavo, vaccine mandates, water}

Schiavo Case Was a Terrible Cultural Tipping Point

_{Wesley J. Smith
March 26, 2025

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting

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The case elevated the culture of death into a conflagration. It boosted the passage of assisted suicide laws. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 26, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science Reporting
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, academia, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Canada, cancel culture, conspiracy theory, COVID-19, distrust, misinformation, scientific reliability}

On Science and Other Subjects, the “Experts” Have Blown Up Their Own Credibility

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 26, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Science Reporting, Scientific Freedom

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Long time free speech advocate Greg Lukianoff and Angel Eduardo dissect the Cancel Culture that makes distrust a quite reasonable choice. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal behavior, brain, Caenorhabditis elegans, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, dopamine, egg laying, evolution, fasting, information, intelligent design, Journal of Neurochemistry, learning, memory, motor neurons, movement, Nature (journal), nematode, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, serotonin, synapses}

“Directed Evolution”: The Tiniest Brain Is Not Simple

_{Eric Cassell
March 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Even a cursory examination of the connectome shows the complexity of the brain, despite its tiny size. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 11, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, biologists, causes, conscious experience, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, explanations, free will, gravity, movement, neuroscientists, Peter Corning, philosophers, physical universe, physicists, promissory note, quantum mechanics, Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, turtles, universe}

Revenge of the Turtle Lady

_{Daniel Witt
March 11, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›