Category: Neuroscience & Mind | Page 7 | Science and Culture Today

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 9, 2025

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Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, brain activity, decision-making, Live Science, neurons, pop psychology, processing, textbooks, visual cortex}

Even in Mice, Decision-Making Is More Complex than We Thought

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September 9, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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If it’s this complex in mice, what are we to make of simplistic representations of human thinking in pop psychology textbooks? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
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, 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
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 8, 2025

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Bioethics
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
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, assisted suicide, bureaucrats, Canada, chemistry, Chronicles Magazine, culture, Darwinian materialism, death, Denyse O’Leary, epiphenomena, free will, human beings, John Zmirak, love, mental illness, Michael Egnor, mind, neurons, neuroscience, physics, soul, The Immortal Mind, United States, veterans}

Darwinism’s “Simplest” and “Most Destructive Implication”

_{David Klinghoffer
September 8, 2025

Bioethics, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Imagine that: killing as a “cost-saving strategy.” I think of Canada more and more as the haunted twin of the United States, and a warning to us. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
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, 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

_{Denyse O’Leary
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

_{Denyse O’Leary
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
John Zmirak

Date
September 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, americans, aneurysm, assisted suicide, atheism, brain, castration, Christianity, culture, Denyse O’Leary, euthanasia, Heaven, immateriality, immortality, infinity, logic, materialism, materialists, mathematics, media, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgery, paganism, Pam Reynolds, philosophy, physics, pornography, precision, simplicity, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, surgeons, The Immortal Mind, Western civilization}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Near-Death Experiences and Saving the Culture

_{John Zmirak
September 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a huge and complex topic. Tens of millions of people have had NDEs and similar spiritual experiences." Read More ›

Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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, 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

_{Denyse O’Leary
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”

_{Denyse O’Leary
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
John Zmirak

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, brain, careers, causation, Christof Koch, Denyse O’Leary, epiphenomena, families, free will, jobs, machines, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, moral responsibility, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, philosophers, Plato, promotions, Saint Augustine, scientists, sexual abuse, soul, The Immortal Mind, theologians, worldview}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Are We Meat Machines, and Why Does It Matter?

_{John Zmirak
August 28, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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I found yours to be a fascinating and persuasive book on a crucial subject. You lay out the issues starkly. Read More ›