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Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2024

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Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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, cats, colony, control, Current Biology, Dogs, humans, people, pets, prey}

Can Science Tell if Our Cats Love Us?

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January 21, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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A cat is not a pack animal; he is adapted to a solitary life. Usually, he likes us but he doesn’t need us emotionally in the same way as a dog. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 19, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, central nervous system, digestive system, electrical impulses, Francis Crick Institute, microbes, neurons, neuroscientists, pathogens, toxins, United States, University of British Columbia, Wired, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

New Findings About Our Mysterious “Second Brain”

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January 19, 2024

Life Sciences, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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It wasn’t long ago that researchers were hardly aware of the way the digestive system functions as a second brain. The big focus was neurons. Read More ›

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Author
Sean Mixon

Date
January 17, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
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, conference, consciousness, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, events, human mind, materialism, mind, rationality, science and faith}

Dallas Conference: How Consciousness Refutes Materialism and Supports Theism

_{Sean Mixon
January 17, 2024

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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I am excited to present to you at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith on February 17. I'll be talking about the "Uniqueness of the Human Mind." Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
January 16, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
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, 1984 (novel), Bertrand Russell, bias, Big Brother, C.S. Lewis, causation, clinical psychology, Darwinian evolution, determinism, Enlightenment, epistemic virtues, evolution, free will, George Orwell, J.P. Moreland, libertarian free will, logic, Miracles (book), Nicholas Caputo, North Korea, rigor, The Conversation, The Design Inference, theists, thought police, Trinity College Dublin, United Nations, William A. Dembski, William Provine, Winston Ewert, Woodrow Wilson}

Freethinking Cannot Be Darwinized

_{David Coppedge
January 16, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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An otherwise good essay on the human right to freedom of thought falls into a Darwinian trap of illogical causation. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 10, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
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, consciousness, Hedda Hassel Mørch, Ireland, James Tour, neurons, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Richard Dawkins}

Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 10, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences

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I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 9, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, After Death, Alexander T. Englert, Angel Studios, atheism, box office, human beings, immortality, Institute for Advanced Study, John Keats, Kurt Gödel, materialists, near-death experiences, ontological proof, relationships, Thomas Aquinas}

Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 9, 2024

Faith & Science, Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Being as Communion, belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, judgment, mind, neuroscience, persuasion, reality, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

_{William A. Dembski
December 27, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 18, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, abortion, Christof Koch, consciousness, David Chalmers, dualism, infants, LinkedIn, panpsychism, pantheism, philosophers, physicalism, pseudoscience, Roger Penrose}

Cancelling the Human Mind: Experts Weigh In

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December 18, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dualism — human consciousness is real, immaterial, and special — is the only approach that accords with the evidence. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, David Barash, dehumanization, evolutionary theory, Holy Grail, human-animal hybrid, humans, humanzee, Nautilus, pain, Rob Sheldon, Soviet Union, Templeton Foundation, University of Washington, worms, wrongthink}

Return (Yet Again) of the Humanzee

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2023

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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So it comes down to a war on the human soul. Now, here’s the interesting part: Humans are self-evidently unique. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
December 13, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, boredom, cardiovascular disease, consciousness, darkness, Darwinian mechanism, evolution, experiences, eyes, human flourishing, information, intelligent design, memory, mind, muscles, nervous system, newborn babies, obesity, rapid eye movement, Restoration, sleep, St. Louis, stimuli, wakefulness, Washington University}

Sleeping and Waking — A Designer’s Gift

_{Eric Hedin
December 13, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why is sleeping, in which the conscious mind/brain is asleep, categorically more restful and recuperative to the body than merely lying down? Read More ›