varun-gaba-TYVDhM6guHA-unsplash 2 Type post Author Michael Egnor Date April 24, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain blood flow, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, mannerisms, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, tennis, vegetative state, walking Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions Michael Egnor April 24, 2025 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›
hospital Type post Author Elizabeth Whately Date May 5, 2021 CategoriesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Adrian Owen, animation, China, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Oscars, Robert J. Marks II Where Do People “Go” in a Coma? Elizabeth Whately May 5, 2021 Neuroscience & Mind 4 At a certain level of unconsciousness, a comatose person’s loved ones are assured that he is aware of their surroundings and should be spoken to naturally. Read More ›
Egnor Type post Date January 12, 2020 CategoriesChemistryNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __edited, Adrian Owen, brain, ID the Future, Michael Egnor, mind, MRI, neuroscience, neurosurgery, podcast, Ray Bohlin, Stony Brook University Michael Egnor: How Experiments Show that the Mind Is More than the Brain Science and Culture January 12, 2020 Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind 1 Oddities of neuroscience that indicate that there is more going on in the brain than mere chemistry. Read More ›
soul Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date July 1, 2017 CategoriesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , __k-review, Adrian Owen, Aristotle, brain, First Things, Francis Crick, materialism, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, neurosurgery, soul, Thomas Aquinas Neuroscientist Michael Egnor on Thomas Aquinas and “A Map of the Soul” David Klinghoffer July 1, 2017 Neuroscience & Mind 4 Patients missing large parts of their brain tissue can lead normal lives because the material, the tissue, is not all there is to us. Read More ›
