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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, brain processes, brain state, circle, concepts, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, immateriality, intellect, line, logic, materialism, matter, neuroscience, perfection, soul, The Immortal Mind, triangle, truth, Uncertainty Principle, universals, Werner Heisenberg}

How Can We Conceive of Perfection When We Never Experience It?

_{Michael Egnor
June 9, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind

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There are two ways we can think of a triangle. One way is to form a mental image, likely based on a triangle we have seen on a piece of paper. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Attention Schema Theory, brain, brain hemispheres, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, doctors, family, Global Workspace Theory, Higher Order Theory, Integrated information theory, laughter, materialism, meat machines, mind, neuroscientists, nurses, Predictive Processing Theory, René Descartes, soul, subjective experience, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

The Boy Who Proved Most Theories of Consciousness Wrong

_{Michael Egnor
June 4, 2025

Anatomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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He was unequivocally conscious — without a cerebral cortex and even without brain hemispheres. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 3, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, EEG machine, epilepsy, legs, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, pain medications, recovery room, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery, vital signs}

New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 3, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Read More ›

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Date
May 30, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, David Chalmers, Giulio Tononi, humanity, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, Mind Matters, panpsychism, TED talks, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Egnor: The Central Mystery of Our Humanity Is Human Consciousness

_{Science and Culture
May 30, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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The fate of the discipline of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
May 28, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physics
Tagged
, atoms, Big Bang, blackbody spectrum, consciousness, Ethan Siegel, fine-tuning, gravitation, helium, hydrogen, intelligent design, intelligent life, life, materialists, microwave background radiation, miracle, naturalism, neutrons, nuclear fusion, physics, protons, re-ionization, universe}

A “Quantum Miracle” that Leads to Life

_{Eric Hedin
May 28, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physics

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To eventually form stars, planets, and life, neutral atoms are a definite prerequisite. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 2, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Allen Brain Institute, Allison Parshall, COGITATE, cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Robert Chis-Ciure, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex}

Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 2, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 28, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abortion, awareness, BBC News, birth, brain activity, cancel culture, Centers for Disease Control, Christof Koch, consciousness, Hatty Willmoth, Joel Frohlich, Pew Research, Research, Science Focus, stimuli, third rail, Tim Bayne, United States, viability}

Consciousness in Unborn Children: Touching the Third Rail

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 28, 2025

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Leading neuroscientist Christof Koch became a target of Cancel Culture in part because his popular theory of consciousness might threaten the right to abortion. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 11, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, dizzy spells, doctors, epilepsy, epiphanies, free will, grand mal seizures, human mind, Joan of Arc, material cause, Michael Egnor, mind, Mother Teresa, neurosurgeons, panic attacks, Psyche (website), Saint Paul, seizures, unconsciousness, Webb Wright}

From Seizures, a Healthy Respect for the Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 11, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Webb Wright’s roundup of historical approaches to epilepsy is not very insightful, unfortunately. Read More ›

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Author
Robert F. Shedinger

Date
April 10, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Christianity, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinists, evolution, evolutionary biologists, evolutionary theory, genetic engineering, intelligent design, Internet, Jesuits, noosphere, North American Teilhard Society, paleontology, Peter Medawar, Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, Piltdown Man, The Phenomenon of Man, theistic evolution, Theodosius Dobzhansky, Thomas Nagel, Vatican}

On the 70th Anniversary of His Death, Anything to Salute in the Thought of Teilhard de Chardin?

_{Robert Shedinger
April 10, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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The significance of Teilhard's pointing out the incomplete nature of the evolutionary theory of his day should not be underestimated. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alien hand syndrome, antiseizure medications, biotechnology, brain, Broca’s area, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, corpus callosum, Gonzalo Munevar, Hannah Thomasy, hemispheres, language, Lawrence Technical University, Michael Egnor, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, Roger Sperry, sci-fi, Severance (sci-fi series), split-brain patients, split-brain syndrome, The Immortal Mind, The Scientist}

One Brain, Two Consciousnesses?

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 8, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction. Read More ›