Tag: eliminative materialism

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 12, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, butterfly, Chelsea Flower Show, Christianity, eliminative materialism, fine-tuning, First Cause, France, Garden of Eden, God the Science the Evidence, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Hercule Poirot, Kathleen Stock, Liz Truss, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michel-Yves Bolloré, Olivier Bonnassies, philosophers, Roman Catholic Church, Sunday Times, The Spiritual Brain, UnHerd, universes}

Why Can’t We Just Go Back to Unprovable Faith?

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 12, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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Kathleen Stock’s witty effort to blunt the force of the evidence presented in that new French book raises a stark question. Read More ›

out of body experience oobe near death experience representation

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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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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 27, 2025

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, antiquity, brain, Christof Koch, Christopher Hitchens, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, David Chalmers, eliminative materialism, evolutionary psychology, Four Horsemen, free will, human consciousness, human mind, Jonny Thomson, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, philosophers, promissory materialism, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, technology, The Immortal Mind}

Reassessing Daniel Dennett on Consciousness as an Illusion

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 27, 2025

Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind

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It is a waste of time to pretend that consciousness is simply an “amazing collection of almost mundane tricks in the brain.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 12, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, immaterial reality, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe}

Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 12, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Read More ›

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Date
August 1, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adam Jacobs, brain, cerebral cortex, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, eliminative materialism, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, mathematics, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Patricia Churchland, precentral gyrus, Stony Brook University, The Immortal Mind}

Where in the Brain Does the Mind Reside?

_{Science and Culture
August 1, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A rabbi asks neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how consciousness can exist without a place in the brain. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Annaka Harris, consciousness, contradictions, dualism, eliminative materialism, Giulio Tononi, hardware, Hedda Hassel Mørch, illusion, immaterial world, Integrated information theory, materialism, matter, Nautilus, panpsychism, particles, physicalism, software, University of Inland Norway}

Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Annaka Harris, brains, Carlo Rovelli, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminative materialism, Four Horsemen, idealism, illusion, Lee Smolin, materialists, mindfulness, New Atheists, octopus, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Sam Harris, self, universe}

A Conscious Universe?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 13, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, animal species, astrophysicists, awareness, Dogs, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, Ethan Siegel, human mind, inner states, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, physical reality, physics, sentience, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Nagel}

What (If Anything) Physics Can Say About Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 13, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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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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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Alan McComas, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, concept cells, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, functionalism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hippocampi, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, pineal gland, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 22, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Aeon, atheism, chairs, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminative materialism, folk psychology, humans, Jerry Fodor, Monash University, philosophers, What Darwin Got Wrong}

Daniel Dennett: The Final Prophet?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 22, 2025

Evolution, Faith & Science

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Dennett’s approach to human consciousness has not only borne no fruit but it is hard to see how it ever could. Read More ›