Category: Neuroscience & Mind | Page 12 | Science and Culture Today

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Denyse O’Leary

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May 2, 2025

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Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex}

Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness

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May 2, 2025

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Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Read More ›

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May 2, 2025

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Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, creativity, Eric Holloway, evolutionary processes, human creativity, large language models, Lovelace test, Minding the Brain, naturalistic explanations, parallel universes, Pat Flynn, Planck time, randomness, Robert J. Marks II, Selmer Bringsjord, Wyoming}

Can We Credit Human Creativity to Blind Evolution?

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May 2, 2025

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The genius of the human mind requires an external, intelligent source beyond the material world. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

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May 1, 2025

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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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, Aeon, Albert Einstein, cats, Erwin Schrödinger, ions, photons, physicists, physics, quantum mechanics, thought experiment, weirdness}

Here Is a New Interpretation for That Alive-and-Dead Quantum Cat

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May 1, 2025

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Schrödinger’s cat has got to be the most famous cat in science. He’s really a thought experiment. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 28, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, abortion, awareness, BBC News, birth, brain activity, cancel culture, Centers for Disease Control, Christof Koch, consciousness, Research, Science Focus, stimuli, third rail, United States}

Consciousness in Unborn Children: Touching the Third Rail

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April 28, 2025

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Leading neuroscientist Christof Koch became a target of Cancel Culture in part because his popular theory of consciousness might threaten the right to abortion. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
April 24, 2025

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Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, walking}

Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions

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April 24, 2025

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Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›

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Eric Cassell

Date
April 23, 2025

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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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, Animal Algorithms, birds, compass, intelligent design, magnetic field, magnetoreception, memory, migration, Nature (journal), navigation, sea turtles}

Sea Turtles and Their Trusty Magnetic Compass

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April 23, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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All of these elements exhibit specified complexity that is indicative of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 21, 2025

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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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, Baylor College of Medicine, brain, Carl Zimmer, Francis Crick, Margherita Bassi, mouse, neurons, neuroscience, New York Times, PBS, Princeton University, Research, Smithsonian Magazine, The Matrix}

Even a Mouse Brain Reveals Staggering Complexity

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April 21, 2025

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Mapping a small part of a mouse's brain required 1.6 petabytes of data, which is equivalent to 22 years of nonstop high-definition video. Read More ›

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April 20, 2025

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Human Exceptionalism
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, Angus Menuge, animals, artificial intelligence, Benjamin Libet, brain, C. elegans, ChatGPT, computer, Denyse O'Leary, determinism, Dogs, free will, human exceptionalism, Humanize, large language models, machines, Michael Egnor, mind, Minding the Brain, neuroscience, podcast, The Immortal Mind, totalitarianism, Wesley J. Smith}

Are “Mind” and “Brain” the Same Thing?

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April 20, 2025

Human Exceptionalism, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor passionately argues that denying free will undermines moral responsibility and paves the way for totalitarian ideologies. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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, abstractions, animal intelligence, birds, brains, common sense, crows, evolution, evolutionary biology, Germany, human exceptionalism, humans, intelligence, intelligent design, logic, mammals, ornithology, paleornithologists, problems, ravens, Science (journal), vertebrates, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

High Bird Intelligence Is Consistent with Design, Not Evolution

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April 17, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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A discussion of animal intelligence that refuses to acknowledge human exceptionalism becomes a script for suppressing discussions we need to have. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
April 17, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, agency, algorithms, biology, chemicals, chemistry, codes, cognition, embryology, engineering, genetic code, Hydra, induction, mammals, Michael Levin, Perry Marshall, predictions, Rutgers University, Seymour Garte, Stuart Kauffman}

New Article Calls for a Philosophical Revolution in Biology, Placing Mind Over Matter

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April 17, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Biology is directed by cognition. But the authors do not attempt to explain the source of cognition or how it originated. Read More ›