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Author
David Coppedge

Date
December 1, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, 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 ›

Person is looking for way out of psychedelic maze. A surreal labyrinth in magical forest. Human consciousness is at dead end, searching for solutions. Created with Generative AI

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 29, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, Carl Sagan, Christopher Hitchens, consciousness, COSM 2025, George Gilder, immaterial reality, information, Jay W. Richards, life after death, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, neurosurgeons, quantum mechanics, Roger Penrose, technology, The Human Advantage}

Does Quantum Mechanics Help Make Sense of the Soul?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 29, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Quantum mechanics seems to be the game-changer that Albert Einstein (1879–1955) feared it would be. It is certain to liven up discussions about the soul. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 28, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, body, brain, COSM 2025, David Deutsch, Francis Crick, materialist paradigm, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, soul}

Skeptic Michael Shermer’s Non-Vision of the Soul

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 28, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Responding to Michael Egnor at COSM 2025, he said that the soul is an explanation but not a good explanation for our relationship to our bodies. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 26, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, apes, Apple, Aristotelianism, Aristotle, chimpanzees, chimps, deduction, Dogs, intelligence, logic, mind, rationality, researchers, Science Alert, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy}

So, Chimps Are Rational Now, Too? War on Human Exceptionalism Goes On

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 26, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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The trouble many researchers go to in order to try to efface the stark reality of human exceptionalism is astonishing. Read More ›

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, aneurysm, axioms, beliefs, blood, body, brain, brain hemispheres, C.S. Lewis, decision, emergence, falsification, free will, heart, illusion, immaterial mind, laws, laws of nature, libertarian free will, mathematics, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgery, physics, Sabine Hossenfelder, scientific method, scientists, surgery, thinking}

A Close Look at Free Will: What Should Our Default Position Be?

_{Kirk Durston
November 25, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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The hypothesis that we have an immaterial mind capable of making free, meaningful decisions, continues to be verified. Read More ›

Female robot face, Artificial intelligence concept. Generative AI

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 21, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, brain, brain mapping, COSM 2025, debates, emotions, free will, history of science, immaterial mind, intelligent design, logic, machines, mathematics, memories, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, near-death experiences, psychology, seizures, sensations, soul, twins}

COSM Debate: “Are Human Beings Machines?”

_{Casey Luskin
November 21, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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The debate centered on the mind and brain and whether the mind is distinct from the brain or whether we’re nothing more than chemicals and firing neurons. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 20, 2025

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal intelligence, ants, bears, biology, human intelligence, information, intelligent design, James Webb Space Telescope, Mihai Andrei, National Zoo, neuroscience, physiology, Science News, West Coast, wolf, ZME Science}

Does Animal Intelligence Point to a Platonic Realm of Pure Information?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 20, 2025

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind

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How could a life form like an ant — not known for creative or independent thinking as such but rather for a hive mind — “evolve” such a strategy? Read More ›

Expérience de mort imminente autrement appelé EMI

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 12, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, confusion, Daily Mail, endorphins, geometry, hypoxia, jesus, ketamine, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, oxygen, Pam Reynolds, psychology, soul, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Near-Death Experiences: Explaining vs. Explaining Away

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 12, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The first rule of a scientific approach should be to take seriously what is happening before rushing in with a “science can explain this” hypothesis. Read More ›

Helping hands, care for the elderly concept

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 5, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Charles Murray, Coming Apart, materialism, modernism, Nancy Pearcey, post-modernism, Richard Dawkins, soul, Steven Pinker, Taking Religion Seriously, terminal lucidity, Wall Street Journal}

As Evidence of a Soul, Charles Murray and Steven Pinker Debate Terminal Lucidity

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Pinker himself is fresh from getting a book tour Canceled by a humanist group. He’s apparently not one of the atheist heroes any more. Read More ›

science laboratory test tubes , lab equipment for research new medical

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2025

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, Anna Krylov, atheism, brains, cancel culture, censorship, diversity, humans, inclusion, mammals, materialism, Nature (journal), Popular Science, private truth, Richard Dawkins, sex binary, Steven Pinker}

When Science Degenerates into a Spoils System

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2025

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Freedom

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Chemistry professor Anna Krylov forces us to look at that in discouraging detail. Read More ›