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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, body, brain, consciousness, death, delusions, dementia, Denyse O'Leary, Discover Magazine, dreams, family members, hallucinations, hospice workers, illusions, Jordan Kinard, Langone Medical Center, last words, materialists, mind, neuroscience, New York University, rationalism, researchers, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, terminal lucidity}

Excerpt: As Death Approaches, a Sudden Light

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 10, 2025

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Needless to say, such lucid episodes imply that the mind is more than the disjointed activities of a failing brain. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, astrocytoma, brain, cafeteria, Christianity, eternity, Hope Is the First Dose, hospital, immortality, Lee Warren, left frontal lobe, life, Michael Egnor, mind, Mystery of the Mind, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, podcast, skeptics, soul, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, tumor, universities, Wilder Penfield}

Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

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June 5, 2025

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Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, artificial intelligence, brain, computational processing, conjoined twins, Denyse O'Leary, disintegration, dualism, free will, gullibility, ID the Future, intentionality, materialism, meaning, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, podcast, Research, soul, split-brain surgery, syntax, The Immortal Mind}

A Neurosurgeon Pulls Back the Curtain on the Soul

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 4, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dr. Michael Egnor tackles provocative ideas, making a case that the human soul exists and that the mind is immortal. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 3, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, EEG machine, epilepsy, legs, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, pain medications, recovery room, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery, vital signs}

New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 3, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Read More ›

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Date
May 30, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, David Chalmers, Giulio Tononi, humanity, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, Mind Matters, panpsychism, TED talks, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Egnor: The Central Mystery of Our Humanity Is Human Consciousness

_{Science and Culture
May 30, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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The fate of the discipline of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
May 26, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anaphase, aneuploidy, biology, biologyu, cancer, cancer cells, cell fusion, cell proliferation, cells, chromatids, chromosomal instability, chromosome, chromosome missegregation, cohesin ring, cytokinesis failure, DNA, E-Cadherin, endoreduplication, eukaryotic cell cycle, intelligent cause, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, kinetochore, micronuclei, mitotic cell division, mitotic spindle, oocytes, proteasome, securin, separase, spindle assembly checkpoint, tetraploidization, tetraploidy, tumorigenesis, tumors}

How Do Mitotic Errors Affect Cell Proliferation?

_{Jonathan McLatchie
May 26, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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This review furthers the argument that I have developed elsewhere that the eukaryotic cell division cycle is elegantly engineered and irreducibly complex. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain halves, cognitive neuroscience, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Science, immaterial genome, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Scripture, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos}

Neuroscience Shows the Soul Is Real

_{David Klinghoffer
May 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why do such things send a shiver down one’s spine? I’m not quite sure why, but they do. Read More ›

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
May 13, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, abortion, advocacy, American Journal of Bioethics, assisted suicide, bioethicists, bioethics, climate change, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), gender ideology, hospitals, medical school, medicine, patients, Paul Ramsey, policy, United Nations, utilitarianism}

Bioethics Becomes Just Another Social-Justice Political Movement

_{Wesley J. Smith
May 13, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine

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A new study illustrates how bioethics is not (and, indeed, never has been) an area of objective professional expertise. Read More ›

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Date
May 9, 2025

Categories
Botany
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, atheism, brain, C.S. Lewis, Christof Koch, Denyse O'Leary, Dogs, ghost, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroanatomy, neuroscience, operations, patients, René Descartes, Sean McDowell, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas}

The Reality of the Soul: Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor on Sean McDowell’s Show

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May 9, 2025

Botany, Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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That spiritual component of the human soul is what survives when a human body dies. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 7, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, alcohol, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, behaviors, brain, brain activity, electrical discharges, emotions, epilepsy, forced thinking, medical treatment, migraines, mind, muscles, neuorscience, neurons, neuroscience, obsessive-compulsive behavior, odors, physiological reactions, seizure, stroke, Thomas Aquinas, Wilder Penfield}

What Epilepsy Can Teach About the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 7, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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I have treated thousands of patients with epilepsy. Seizures can result in a variety of behaviors and emotions. But let me tell you what they don't do. Read More ›