Tag: immaterial mind

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, aneurysm, axioms, beliefs, blood, body, brain, brain hemispheres, C. S. Lewis, compatible free will, decision, emergence, falsification, free will, heart, illusion, immaterial mind, laws, laws of nature, libertarian free will, mathematics, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgery, physics, Sabine Hossenfelder, scientific method, scientific naturalism, scientists, surgery, thinking, truths}

A Close Look at Free Will: What Should Our Default Position Be?

_{Kirk Durston
November 25, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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The hypothesis that we have an immaterial mind capable of making free, meaningful decisions, continues to be verified. Read More ›

Female robot face, Artificial intelligence concept. Generative AI

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 21, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, brain, brain mapping, COSM 2025, debates, emotions, free will, frontal cortex, history of science, immaterial mind, intelligent design, logic, machines, mathematics, memories, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, near-death experiences, neural patterns, psychology, seizures, sensations, soul, surgeries, twins}

COSM Debate: “Are Human Beings Machines?”

_{Casey Luskin
November 21, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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The debate centered on the mind and brain and whether the mind is distinct from the brain or whether we’re nothing more than chemicals and firing neurons. Read More ›

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Author
Brian Miller

Date
October 13, 2025

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Physics
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, biology, Brandeis University, Darwinism, elementary particles, English, ethics, Euclid, evolutionary search algorithms, France, God the Science the Evidence, history, immaterial mind, incompleteness theorem, Irreducible Complexity, Kurt Gödel, materialism, Michel-Yves Bolloré, miracles, morality, Olivier Bonnassies, Palle Yourgrau, philosophy, physics, protein rarity, rationality, Return of the God Hypothesis, Scripture, Stephen Meyer, theology, waiting times}

Innovative New Book by French Authors Complements Meyer’s God Hypothesis

_{Brian Miller
October 13, 2025

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Physics

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Kurt Gödel is not as widely known in popular culture as Einstein, but mathematicians consider his work just as revolutionary and foundational. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 12, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Tagged
, agency, Albert Einstein, angels, atoms, brain injury, brains, C.S. Lewis, Energy, faith and science, home, human beings, immaterial mind, intelligent design, intelligent designer, laws of nature, life, light, miracles, oscillations, singing, spirit, substance, universe}

Mind, Matter, and Intelligent Design

_{Eric Hedin
April 12, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life

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Let’s extend our speculations about the nature of spirit and its interactive ability with this material universe to considerations on the origin of life. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
April 9, 2024

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Planetology
Tagged
, atmosphere, books, dark matter, dust, electric fields, electromagnetic radiation, electromagnetic waves, Energy, gravitational waves, immaterial mind, intelligent agency, intelligent design, magnetic fields, mind, painting, physical universe, spirit, Stephen Meyer, universe}

Intelligent Design Beyond Physics — How Would a Designer Interact with the Universe?

_{Eric Hedin
April 9, 2024

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Planetology

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If our minds are “other” than the matter composing our brains, then there must be a means by which the immaterial mind can affect our brains. Read More ›

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Date
September 19, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, earth, extraterrestrials, immaterial mind, intelligent design, Michael Shermer, natural world, nature, planets, Return of the God Hypothesis, skeptics, stars, Stephen Meyer, theism, theology, universe}

Meyer on Front-Loaded Intelligent Design, and More

_{Science and Culture
September 19, 2021

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Stephen Meyer says he doesn’t have an in-principle objection to that idea. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
December 15, 2016

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Technology
Tagged
, __nedited, algorithms, creativity, immaterial mind, The Soul of the Matter (book)}

A Flash of Insight About Physics, Reality, and DNA Launched Bruce Buff as a Novelist

_{David Klinghoffer
December 15, 2016

Bioethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Technology

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It's a remarkable and telling thing about human creativity that ideas come to us so often not through a step-by-step process but in an instant. Read More ›

Laptop with half lid open on a table lit with colorful desktop screen wallpaper in a dark room

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 9, 2016

Categories
Computational Sciences
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __nedited, immaterial mind, purpose, software analogy, Steve Jobs, Undeniable (book)}

Intelligent Design and the Computer Analogy

_{David Klinghoffer
September 9, 2016

Computational Sciences, Intelligent Design

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Imagine if computer science allowed researchers to consider the physical components of computers but not the "ideas" that drive them. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
August 31, 2016

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract thought, behaviorism, communication, Daniel Everett, designators, grammar, human exceptionalism, human language, immaterial mind, language, language organ, Noam Chomsky, The Kingdom of Speech, Tom Wolfe, universals, words}

Tom Wolfe on Language and Evolution

_{Michael Egnor
August 31, 2016

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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I think that Noam Chomsky is fundamentally right, and I am skeptical of Daniel Everett's claim. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 27, 2016

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract thought, determinism, free will, immaterial mind, immaterial powers, intellect, John Searle, naturalism}

More on John Searle and Free Will

_{Michael Egnor
July 27, 2016

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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A reader cites Searle's books Rationality in Action and Freedom and Neurobiology, contending that he is in fact a defender of free will. Read More ›