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Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, abstract thought, Alice Cronin-Golomb, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2025

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Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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, bank account, bank card, body, brain, checkbook, currency, doctors, electrons, firecrackers, flags, immaterial assumptions, Labor Day, location, material facts, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, password, public buildings, Saint Augustine, The Immortal Mind}

Lots of Real Things Are Immaterial; Here Are a Few

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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I have a bank account. That means I have a bank card and a password. Also a checkbook. Are those items “the account?” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, backyard telescope, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mirrors, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, brain, careers, causation, Christof Koch, Denyse O’Leary, divorce, epiphenomena, families, free will, friendships, grants, human trafficking, jobs, livelihoods, machines, marriages, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, moral responsibility, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, philosophers, Plato, preference falsification, promotions, Saint Augustine, scientists, sexual abuse, soul, The Immortal Mind, theologians, worldview}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Are We Meat Machines, and Why Does It Matter?

_{John Zmirak
August 28, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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I found yours to be a fascinating and persuasive book on a crucial subject. You lay out the issues starkly. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, antiquity, brain, Christof Koch, Christopher Hitchens, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, eliminative materialism, evolutionary psychology, Four Horsemen, free will, human consciousness, human mind, Jonny Thomson, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, philosophers, promissory materialism, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, technology, The Immortal Mind}

Reassessing Daniel Dennett on Consciousness as an Illusion

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2025

Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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It is a waste of time to pretend that consciousness is simply an “amazing collection of almost mundane tricks in the brain.” Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2025

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Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
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, After (book), belief, Bruce Greyson, Buddhism, Christianity, Denyse O'Leary, divine truth, folk belief, guardian angel, Jacob Vazquez, medical science, near-death experiences, occult belief, The Immortal Mind, theology, Truthful Hope}

Near-Death Experiences Fail to Confirm Any Single Belief System

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August 24, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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People of different faiths tend to have experiences consistent with their culture. What does that say about the reality of the experiences? Read More ›

Focused man wearing futuristic brain computer interface intense concentration

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 19, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Benyamin Meschede-Krasa, brain implant, brain-computer interfaces, BrainGate2, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, dissidents, English, Erin Kunz, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Francis Willett, government, Ian Fleming, inner speech, Jacques Vidal, Manhasset, monologue, neuroscience, new york, Rudy Molinek, Sarah Wandelt, Smithsonian Magazine, speech, Stanford University, stroke, technology, UCLA}

A Device to Read Minds? Not What Researchers Intended, But…

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 19, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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"There’s a voice inside most people’s minds that comes alive when they listen, read, or prepare to speak." Read More ›

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Date
August 17, 2025

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Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain waves, Christof Koch, Denyse O’Leary, doctors, human mind, Jacob Vazquez, materialists, medicine, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, Middle Ages, near-death experiences, Skeptic Magazine, The Immortal Mind, theology, Truthful Hope}

Why Near-Death Experiences Are Being Treated More Seriously Now

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August 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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"The reason they came to get so much attention today was actually modern medical practice." Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 13, 2025

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, animals, brain, brain activity, Bridget Queenan, Christof Koch, consciousness, human exceptionalism, immaterial reality, language, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Gazzaniga, mind, music, rats, Roger Sperry, signal systems, soul, spirit, split-brain patients, volume}

Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 13, 2025

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 8, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Genetics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, ancient world, animals, brain, David Weinberg, Denyse O'Leary, genome, human beings, immaterial reality, medieval world, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, philosophers, philosophy, plants, Plato’s Revenge, reason, soul, The Federalist, The Immortal Mind, will, William James}

A Reviewer Assesses Dr. Egnor on the Mind: Science Is “Catching Up” to Philosophy

_{David Klinghoffer
August 8, 2025

Faith & Science, Genetics, Neuroscience & Mind

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In two different areas of research — the nature of the mind, and the nature of genome — science points us to the existence of an immaterial reality. Read More ›