Tag: Bernardo Kastrup

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Amanda Gefter, analytic idealists, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, database, dissociation, eliminative materialism, idealism, Joshua Farris, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, supernatural}

One Reason Near-Death Experiences Are Hard to Study

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 10, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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When the mind is dissociated from the body briefly, it may acquire actual knowledge — as in NDEs where the knowledge acquired is later confirmed. Read More ›

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Date
April 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, Discovery Institute, evidence, evolution, ID the Future, immaterial reality, intelligent design, interviews, materialists, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, neuroscience, podcast, Walter Bradley Center}

Did Consciousness Evolve?

_{Science and Culture
April 13, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Think, Bruce Greyson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Closer to Truth, consciousness, David Chalmers, death, hard problem of consciousness, life after death, moral choice, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, npr, Scientific American, Standard Model}

Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
August 12, 2022

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Aristotelianism, Bernardo Kastrup, birds, cephalopods, Christianity, consciousness, dreaming, general relativity, gravitational waves, humans, intelligent design, Judaism, mammals, mental states, Michael Egnor, neocortex, protists, rapid eye movement, REM sleep, sensory organs, spiders, thermostat, Thomistic philosophy}

Dreaming Spiders? My Disagreement with Michael Egnor

_{Günter Bechly
August 12, 2022

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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Rapid eye movement may indicate neural activity, but dreaming for me implies a conscious awareness of the dream state, which I consider as unlikely in spiders. 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 ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 11, 2020

Categories
Mathematics
Physical Sciences
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, __edited, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Bang, black holes, Cartesian dualism, consciousness, Darwinists, Jerry Coyne, love, material phenomena, materialism, mercy, philosophers, physical science, physicalism, physicalists, res cogitans, supernatural, Thales, truth}

Do Physicalists Believe in Black Holes?

_{Michael Egnor
February 11, 2020

Mathematics, Physical Sciences, Scientific Reasoning

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A materialist view of reality leaves out much of reality (love, reason, mercy, truth, etc.) so skittish materialists often call themselves “physicalists.” Read More ›