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Leading Neuroscientist Wavers on Physical View of Consciousness

"Consciousness cannot be explained only within the framework of space and time and energy, but we need to postulate something additional — experience.” Read More ›
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Brain as a Quantum System: Theory Gets New Traction

Hameroff and Penrose’s Orch Or Theory sees consciousness as the outcome of a quantum collapse of a wave function. Read More ›
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Dallas Conference: How Consciousness Refutes Materialism and Supports Theism

I am excited to present to you at the Dallas Conference on Science and Faith on February 17. I'll be talking about the "Uniqueness of the Human Mind." Read More ›
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Biochemist Begins to Sense Limits of Materialism

I was somewhat taken aback. What does he mean by the “general nature of life” yielded to scientific analysis? Read More ›
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No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Read More ›
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Cancelling the Human Mind: Experts Weigh In

Dualism — human consciousness is real, immaterial, and special — is the only approach that accords with the evidence. Read More ›
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Sleeping and Waking — A Designer’s Gift

Why is sleeping, in which the conscious mind/brain is asleep, categorically more restful and recuperative to the body than merely lying down? Read More ›
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Can Animal Minds Explain Human Minds?

Kristin Andrews thinks consciousness researchers should discard the assumptions of “white, male and WEIRD” philosophy profs and study more crabs. Read More ›
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A Few Thoughts on the Cronin-Tour Debate

Under the theory of an unguided process of chemical and biological evolution, should a threshold of complexity, clearly identifying life, be expected? Read More ›
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What Do Bees’ Joy and Pain Really Tell Us About Insect Minds?

Efforts to relate insect to human consciousness are doomed because the distinguishing features of human consciousness are abstract thinking and moral choice. Read More ›

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