Category: Neuroscience & Mind

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Author
Michael Flannery

Date
March 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, birth, brain, conception, Elliott Sober, epigenetic inheritance, evolution, Evolution of the Brain, evolutionary theory, fetus, individuality, intelligent design, John C. Eccles, Karl Popper, lottery, Mehmet Elgin, mind, natural selection, neuroscience, purpose, purposeful nature, recant, recantation, spiritual creation, testability, The Self and Its Brain, theology, uniqueness}

Popper and Purposeful Nature: A Note on the So-Called “Recantation”

_{Michael Flannery
March 10, 2026

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A correspondent raises this famous statement of Karl Popper on natural selection, with his “historically loaded word ‘recant.’” Read More ›

Capture the essence of collective consciousness through digital connectivity by visualizing it in a dynamic and visually striking manner from a worms-eye view Create a design that symbolizes

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Author
Robert J. Marks II

Date
March 4, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Angus Menuge, artificial intelligence, awareness, brain, brain localization, brain processes, Brian Krouse, cognitive science, computer engineering, computer science, consciousness, Denyse O’Leary, emergentism, George Gilder, idealism, integrated information, Integrated information theory, mental properties, Michael Egnor, microtubules, mind, mind–brain dualism, Minding the Brain, naturalism, neuroscience, neurosurgery, panpsychism, particles, philosophy, psychology, quantum consciousness, quantum mechanics, Roger Penrose, simulation theory, Stuart Hameroff, The Immortal Mind, The Matrix, The Truman Show, universe}

Conscious AI, You Say? Here Are Six Models of Consciousness

_{Robert J. Marks II
March 4, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a mathematically founded emergence model. Michael Egnor and I recently published a paper critiquing IIT. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
March 3, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Darwinian evolution, David Coppedge, electrical signals, engineering, foresight, GUT, healing, homeostasis, information exchange, internal dialogue, interoception, Irreducible Complexity, organs, pathogens, Piezo proteins, proprioception, receptors, second brain, system of systems}

Discovering Interoception, the Body’s Internal Dialogue

_{Andrew McDiarmid
March 3, 2026

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The coordinated information exchange and irreducible complexity required for these systems to function suggest foresight and engineering. Read More ›

Telepathic communication mind power control through thought and mental communication abilities

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 4, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alexander Batthyany, brain, confusion, Denyse O’Leary, human mind, immaterial reality, Michael Egnor, mind, natural world, near-death experiences, neurosurgeons, panic, somnolence, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, theology, Threshold}

When the Mind is Freed from the Brain

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 4, 2026

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The strong dependency of mind on brain that gets us through everyday life no longer seems to apply when we come to death and dying. Read More ›

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Author
Tom Winkler

Date
February 3, 2026

Categories
Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, biology, cell phone, civil dialogue, Cornell University, Discovery Institute, education, faculty, Heterodox Academy, immaterial causes, intelligent design, Ithaca, Ivy League, James Tour, material causes, Michael Behe, Michael Egnor, new york, professors, Randy Wayne, Seattle, students, universities, Walter Bradley Center on Natural and Artificial Intelligence, world view}

An Evening with Michael Egnor at Cornell

_{Tom Winkler
February 3, 2026

Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The talk itself provides the basis for the Q&A, so it is worth listening to. But for a real treat, don’t miss the exchange afterward. It is golden. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 2, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, brain, brain function, communication, consciousness, death, Denyse O’Leary, emotions, free will, human identity, ID the Future, materialism, medical literature, memories, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movements, near-death experiences, neuroscience, physicalism, reason, seizures, sensations, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, Threshold}

Terminal Lucidity Points to Indestructible Personhood

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 2, 2026

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Why would the human mind sometimes appear strongest when the brain is weakest? We begin a two-part conversation discussing the phenomenon of terminal lucidity. Read More ›

The concept of control and dictatorship over people

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 3, 2026

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alain Aspect, Anton Zeilinger, atheists, Benjamin Libet, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, free will, J. D. Vance, John F. Clauser, logic, meat puppets, Michael Egnor, Minority Report, neuroscience, neuroscientists, physics, readiness potential, Robert Sapolsky, Sam Harris, Soviet Union, Stanford University, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, United States, Wilder Penfield, Yuval Noah Harari}

Free Will vs. the Totalitarian Temptation

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 3, 2026

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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If our thoughts and choices really are wholly determined, well then what follows? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 4th of July, americans, atheists, blueberries, Christof Koch, CNN, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, faith and science, fireworks, Gaza, Independence Day, Israel, journalists, July 4, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Roman Catholics, Scripture, Seattle, skeptics, Sunday Times, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos}

No. 7 Story for 2025: World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor

_{David Klinghoffer
December 26, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Piers Morgan, who is Catholic, says he already believed in life after death from faith and Scripture. What he wanted, he said, was scientific evidence for it. Read More ›

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Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, consciousness, Daily Mail, David Klinghoffer, life after death, near-death experiences, panpsychism, physicists, Plato, Plato's Revenge, quantum mechanics, Richard Sternberg, Stephen Hawking, telepathy, terminal lucidity, Thomas Henry Huxley, universe, Uppsala University}

According to New Physics Model, Consciousness Underlies the Universe

_{Science & Culture
December 1, 2025

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

2}

We live in a universe closer to the vision of Plato (c. 427 – 348 BC) than of Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895). Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anatomy, anger, awareness, biochemistry, biology, brain, central nervous system, Darwinian evolution, Douglas Axe, engineering, environment, False Messiah, fear, homeostasis, hunger, intelligent design, joints, limbs, mice, microbiology, muscles, Neil Thomas, neurons, neuroscience, organs, parasites, physiology, PIEZO1, PLOS Biology, Portugal, proprioception, space, stress, Systems Biology, TIME, Undeniable (book), zoology}

Interoception: An Emerging Design Concept in Biology

_{David Coppedge
December 1, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We’ve heard of proprioception, the awareness of our limbs in space and time, but interoception is a companion sense. Read More ›