Tag: illusion

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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

6}

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

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 20, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain surgery, Cornell University, illusion, Justine Sergent, neuroscience, personality, Psyche, religions, scalpel, selfhood, soul, split-brain surgery, Yair Pinto}

Split-Brain Surgeries Reveal Reality of the Soul

_{Michael Egnor
February 20, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

This is not only the perennial teaching of the great religions, but the evidence of the best neuroscience. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Psychology
Tagged
, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, eliminationism, Energy, Galen Strawson, illusion, matter, natural selection, neuroscience, panpsychism, random mutation, snakes, universe}

Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 2, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Psychology

4}

It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 2, 2024

Categories
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bees, consciousness, Cornell University, herbivores, illusion, intelligence, Jerry Coyne, Lars Chittka, naturalism, panpsychism}

Evolutionary Biologist Defines Goldenrod Plant as “Intelligent”

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 2, 2024

Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The media release for the journal paper, sponsored by Cornell University, illustrates the growing comfort of science with panpsychist ideas. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
December 27, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Being as Communion, belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, judgment, mind, neuroscience, persuasion, reality, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

_{William A. Dembski
December 27, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

5}

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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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 7, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain, dualism, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, illusion, intentionality, internalism, materialism, neuroscience, neuroscientists, physicalism, Riccardo Manzotti}

Neuroscience Must Be Dualist, Whether or Not “Science” Allows It

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 7, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

No matter what terminology is chosen, the materialist project always and necessarily amounts to eliminating the mind. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
November 20, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Being as Communion, belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, judgment, mind, neuroscience, persuasion, reality, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos}

On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

_{William A. Dembski
November 20, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

5}

Rather than refute Harris by pointing out why his statement scores high on the irony meter, I thought I’d ask ChatGPT to do it for me. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 25, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, After Death, Andrew McDiarmid, Angel Studios, autoscopy, death, documentary, Heaven, Hell, ID the Future, illusion, life, near-death experiences, podcast, resuscitation, soul, theatrical release, tickets}

Accounts from “After Death” Defeat Materialist Contentions About the Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
October 25, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

Ahead of the Friday theatrical release, our colleague Andrew McDiarmid talked with Dr. Jeffrey Long, a cancer doctor who appears in the film. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 27, 2023

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bioengineering, birds, cells, communication, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminationism, human body, human consciousness, humans, illusion, insects, Integrated information theory, intelligence, jellyfish, Macquarie University, Michael Levin, Nature (journal), octopuses, panpsychism, physicalism, Tufts University, University of Montreal}

Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 27, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

8}

Cells are intelligent, in a way. But that fact is a much better argument for intelligent design than for the idea that the human intellect is insignificant. Read More ›