Immortal-Mind-Social-Media-Graphics-1920x1080px-No-Button Type post Author Michael Egnor Date June 10, 2025 CategoriesFaith & ScienceMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , body, brain, consciousness, death, delusions, dementia, Denyse O'Leary, Discover Magazine, dreams, family members, hallucinations, hospice workers, illusions, Jordan Kinard, Langone Medical Center, last words, materialists, mind, neuroscience, New York University, rationalism, researchers, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, terminal lucidity Excerpt: As Death Approaches, a Sudden Light Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary June 10, 2025 Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 4 Needless to say, such lucid episodes imply that the mind is more than the disjointed activities of a failing brain. Read More ›
rots from the head Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date May 12, 2017 CategoriesCosmologyIntelligent DesignPhysical SciencesPhysics Tagged , __nedited, ad hoc hypotheses, Columbia University, consciousness, Cosmos (series), evidence, fake news, falsifiability, hype, illusions, multiverse, naturalism, Normal Science, Occam's Razor, panspermia, Peter Woit, post-truth, Scientific American, scientific reliability, simulation theory, Templeton Foundation How Naturalism Rots Science from the Head Down Denyse O’Leary May 12, 2017 Cosmology, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics 5 The prevalence of, for example, fake physics, shows that we are in the midst of a philosophical decline. Read More ›
Type post Author Michael Egnor Date May 3, 2016 CategoriesHuman Origins and AnthropologyNeuroscience & MindPsychology Tagged , __tedited, abstract thinking, choices, determinism, fallacy, free will, human mind, human responsibilities, illusions, mind-brain debate, natural causes, people, self Is Free Will Just "Your Brain Tricking Itself"? Michael Egnor May 3, 2016 Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology 5 When scientists propose a really inane explanation for a mundane observation, evolutionary psychology is likely the discipline invoked. Read More ›