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Douglas Axe
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Günter Bechly
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Michael J. Behe
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David Berlinski
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Eric Cassell
David Coppedge
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William A. Dembski
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Michael Denton
Michael Egnor
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Michael Flannery
Ann Gauger
Howard Glicksman
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Guillermo Gonzalez
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Bruce Gordon
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Eric Hedin
Cornelius Hunter
Cornelius G. Hunter
Stephen J. Iacoboni
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David Klinghoffer
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Wolf-Ekkehard Lönnig
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Casey Luskin
Casey Luskin
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Andrew McDiarmid
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Jonathan McLatchie
Stephen C. Meyer
Brian Miller
Walter Myers III
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Paul Nelson
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Denyse O’Leary
Emily Reeves
Emily Sandico
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Granville Sewell
Robert Shedinger
Geoffrey Simmons
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Wesley J. Smith
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Rob Stadler
Neil Thomas
Jonathan Wells
John G. West
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Daniel Witt
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Integrated information theory

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Denyse O’Leary
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August 17, 2026
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Life Sciences
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What if the Brain Is a Filter?

Denyse O’Leary
August 17, 2026
Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind
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The idea would provides insight into one of the most significant characteristics of near-death experiences, the extraordinary lucidity that experiencers report. Read More ›
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Capture the essence of collective consciousness through digital connectivity by visualizing it in a dynamic and visually striking manner from a worms-eye view Create a design that symbolizes
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Robert J. Marks II
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March 4, 2026
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Neuroscience & Mind
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Conscious AI, You Say? Here Are Six Models of Consciousness

Robert J. Marks II
March 4, 2026
Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Integrated Information Theory (IIT) is a mathematically founded emergence model. Michael Egnor and I recently published a paper critiquing IIT. Read More ›
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August 1, 2025
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Where in the Brain Does the Mind Reside?

Science & 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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Denyse O’Leary
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June 20, 2025
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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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Michael Egnor
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June 4, 2025
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Anatomy
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The Boy Who Proved Most Theories of Consciousness Wrong

Michael Egnor
June 4, 2025
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He was unequivocally conscious — without a cerebral cortex and even without brain hemispheres. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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May 2, 2025
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Anatomy
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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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Michael Egnor
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April 2, 2025
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Debating the Legacy of Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield

Michael Egnor
April 2, 2025
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind
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How much more evidence is necessary to draw the scientific inference that activation of brain networks is insufficient to generate abstract thought? Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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March 15, 2024
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Fine-tuning
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
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Cosmic Fine-Tuning as Evidence for the Reality of Consciousness

Denyse O’Leary
March 15, 2024
Fine-tuning, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences
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Many neuroscientists hold the materialist view that the mind is a user illusion generated by the brain. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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October 20, 2023
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Consciousness May Occur Near Time of Birth

Denyse O’Leary
October 20, 2023
Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy
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Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development. Read More ›
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Denyse O’Leary
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September 27, 2023
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Intelligent Design
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Can a Brainless Jellyfish Learn? How About Individual Cells? Do Molecules Communicate?

Denyse O’Leary
September 27, 2023
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind
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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 ›

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