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When Schools of Fish Lose Their Memories

Because we don’t tend to think of fish as being very smart, we don’t think they could have memories that matter. Read More ›
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Birds Don’t Drive Buicks Because of … Evolution, You See

This all seems a roundabout way of saying that humans are exceptional. And here’s the question that no one in evolutionary biology has the answer to. Read More ›
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Near-Death Experiences Give Scientific Evidence of the Soul

As Dr. Egnor contends, near-death experiences offer modern, experiential evidence that the human mind is not confined to the skull. Read More ›
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Egnor and Koch Debate the Soul…and Talk Dogs

Here are two highlights that give some sense of the scope and tenor of the debate. Read More ›
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Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious

To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real. Read More ›
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Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind

Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? I spoke with Denyse O’Leary about surprising findings out of neuroscience. Read More ›
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A Conscious Universe?

Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail. Read More ›
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Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief 

The annihilationists are being careless. They assume that the physical flame just disappears. Actually, it doesn’t. Read More ›
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Dr. Michael Egnor on His Own Spiritual Journey

His personal story, including a profound experience in a hospital chapel during a family crisis, became a turning point that challenged his atheism. Read More ›
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What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness

What about objects? If we want to argue that they have consciousness too, we need to define the term differently from the experiential way we usually do. Read More ›

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