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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 12, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agent causation, B. F. Skinner, behavior, behaviorism, children, Darwinism, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, free will, grammar, intellect, Jerry Fodor, language, language organ, mental states, Michael Behe, Noam Chomsky, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, The Immortal Mind, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Behaviorism Failed Much as Darwinism Has Done

_{Michael Egnor
June 12, 2025

Evolution, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The human mind, like the origin and development of life itself, is not reducible to merely physical processes. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Bruce Greyson, Charlotte Martial, Mario Beauregard, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, spaghetti, Susan Blackmore, The Spiritual Brain, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn, University of Michigan, veridical, Yale University}

Near-Death Experiences Are Being Taken More Seriously Now

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We are seeing a growth in genuine curiosity, which is a welcome change, and likely to be a fruitful one. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atoms, brain, brain function, Denyse O'Leary, human mind, intellect, materialism, materialists, memory, mind, numbers, perception, universe, vision, wavelengths}

Logic Shows Abstract Thought Is an Immaterial Power

_{Michael Egnor
June 10, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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There are also logical reasons for thinking that the intellect is immaterial, which means spiritual. Read More ›

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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, hallucinations, illusions, 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

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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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
Michael Egnor

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, brain processes, brain state, concepts, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, immateriality, intellect, line, logic, materialism, matter, neuroscience, soul, The Immortal Mind, triangle, truth, Uncertainty Principle, universals, Werner Heisenberg}

How Can We Conceive of Perfection When We Never Experience It?

_{Michael Egnor
June 9, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind

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There are two ways we can think of a triangle. One way is to form a mental image, likely based on a triangle we have seen on a piece of paper. Read More ›

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Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Anselm of Canterbury, autism, Christianity, creator, Denyse O'Leary, faith and reason, Five Ways, Jesus Christ, Kurt Gödel, Matt Dillahunty, Michael Egnor, Moral Law, prayer, Robert J. Marks II, science and religion, Stephen Hawking, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Sowell, universe}

Egnor: The Architecture of Reality

_{Science & Culture
June 6, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In a new podcast discussion with Robert J. Marks, Michael Egnor talks about the relationship between faith and arguments from philosophical reasoning. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 5, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Christianity, eternity, 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

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 5, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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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 4, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain hemispheres, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, doctors, family, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, laughter, materialism, meat machines, mind, neuroscientists, nurses, René Descartes, soul, subjective experience, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

The Boy Who Proved Most Theories of Consciousness Wrong

_{Michael Egnor
June 4, 2025

Anatomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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He was unequivocally conscious — without a cerebral cortex and even without brain hemispheres. 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, epilepsy, legs, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery}

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 ›