Category: Neuroscience & Mind | Page 47 | Science and Culture Today

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Michael Egnor

Date
April 14, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, blood flow, brain, brain activity, fMRI, functional magnetic resonance imaging, Harvard University, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, researchers}

Why a “Budding” Neuroscientist Is Skeptical of Brain Scans

_{Michael Egnor
April 14, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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A major thrust of neuroscience has been the use of fMRI to correlate brain activity with thinking and to draw conclusions about the physical basis of the mind. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
April 6, 2021

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Neuroscience & Mind
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, blindness, brain, cerebral cortex, eyes, form, mind, neurobiology, occipital lobes, perception, person, philosophy of mind, retina, sensations, soul}

The Mystery of Blindsight Helps Us Understand the Mind Better

_{Michael Egnor
April 6, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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Blindsight is the remarkable ability of some blind people to sense objects that they cannot actually see. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
March 18, 2021

Categories
Linguistics
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, blood, central nervous system, conjoined twins, DNA, ears, genes, heart, intelligent design, kidney, kidneys, lungs, neighbors, ribosomes, Robert White, soul, spinal cord}

Are Human Brain Transplants Even Possible?

_{Michael Egnor
March 18, 2021

Linguistics, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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I believe the intelligent design perspective may offer insight into the peculiar inability of central nervous system tissue to regenerate. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
March 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
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, body, brain, Frankenstein, humans, medicine, monkeys, muscles, nerves, neurosurgeon, paralysis, quadriplegia, Robert White, soul, spinal cord, trachea, Wired}

Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

_{Michael Egnor
March 11, 2021

Bioethics, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
February 1, 2021

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, amnesia, brain function, comatose, consciousness, Discovery Institute, dreams, drugs, ether, injury, machines, mechanical philosophy, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, persistent vegetative state, phlogiston, sleep, unconsciousness, Walter Bradley Center}

Seven Reasons the Soul Can’t Be Turned “Off”

_{David Klinghoffer
February 1, 2021

Neuroscience & Mind

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Neuroscientist Michael Egnor notes that the idea of consciousness is "empty," much like the idea of "natural selection" in evolution. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
January 29, 2021

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, amnesia, anesthesia, consciousness, medical students, medicine, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, pain, surgery, unconsciousness, Walter Bradley Center}

Egnor: Disturbing Questions About Consciousness

_{David Klinghoffer
January 29, 2021

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Think about this next time you are put under general anesthesia, which I hope neither you nor I will be anytime soon. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 15, 2020

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Christianity, Closer to Truth, consciousness, Design Inference, intelligent design, materialism, reality, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, William A. Dembski}

Consciousness Shows that Materialism Is False

_{Michael Egnor
December 15, 2020

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind

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My friend and colleague Bill Dembski, a leading advocate of intelligent design of the universe and life forms, has done a superb short interview. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 11, 2020

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, brain activity, brain hemispheres, consciousness, dualism, Dunning-Kruger effect, human brain, materialism, mice, mind-brain debate, Neurologica, neuroscience, Steven Novella, Yale University}

Has Neuroscience “Proved” that the Mind Is Just the Brain?

_{Michael Egnor
December 11, 2020

Neuroscience & Mind

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Yale's Steven Novella has been trying to sell his materialist ideology in the guise of neuroscience for more than a decade. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2020

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, adults, Aeon, animals, caregivers, children, chimpanzees, Darwinian evolution, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, empathy, feelings, human beings, infants, intelligence, intelligent design, just-so stories, Mind Matters, rationality}

Empathy — The Foundation of Human Exceptionalism?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2020

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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If I gave you 15 seconds you could come up with a pat evolutionary just-so story to account for this, speculating on what reproductive advantage it serves. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
November 10, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, agnosticism, Aristotle, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, emergence, evolution, ID the Future, idealism, instinct, intelligent design, Jerry Fodor, materialism, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, natural selection, neuroscience, panpsychism, random mutations, teleology}

An Intelligent Design Behind Consciousness — Or an Instinctive One?

_{David Klinghoffer
November 10, 2020

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Something immaterial can’t have an effect on the material realm, presumably, so how would it be selected as advantageous by Darwinian natural selection? Read More ›