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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 22, 2018

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, brain, Cartesian dualism, emergence, materialism, matter, mind, neurons, neurotransmitters, ontology, res cogitans, res extensa, soul, Thomism, water}

“Emergence” and the Soul

_{Michael Egnor
January 22, 2018

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Emergence, as a perceptual surprise, can’t explain the mind because emergence presupposes the mind. Read More ›

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Author
Sarah Chaffee

Date
November 29, 2017

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Origin of Life
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, abiogenesis, Ann Gauger, astrobiology, chicken-and-egg problem, Columbia University, computer code, DNA, evolution, intelligent design, matter, metaphor, molecular machines, NASA, npr, universe}

“The Ultimate Bootstrap”

_{Sarah Chaffee
November 29, 2017

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Origin of Life, Physical Sciences

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Caleb Scharf explores the degrees of magnitude separating the immensity of the universe from the smallest particle of matter. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 24, 2017

Categories
Botany
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, Benjamin Libet, brain, craniopagus twins, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, documentary, Krista Hogan, matter, mind, neuroscience, physiology, Roger Sperry, soul, spirit, Tatiana Hogan, Thomistic dualism, Wilder Penfield}

What the Craniopagus Twins Teach Us About the Mind and the Brain

_{Michael Egnor
November 24, 2017

Botany, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Tatiana and Krista Hogan's shared and individual powers of mind are just what Thomistic dualism predicts. Read More ›

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Date
November 18, 2017

Categories
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, Brian Miller, Center for Science and Culture, ID the Future, information, life, materialism, matter, physical existence, podcast, reality, Research, Sarah Chaffee, universe}

Physicist Brian Miller on Information as the Basis of the Universe

_{Science and Culture
November 18, 2017

Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Increasingly, the direction of research points away from a materialist view in which information is seen as a byproduct of matter. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 30, 2017

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, Ed Feser, existence, intelligibility, matter, potency, substance}

What Is Form?

_{Michael Egnor
July 30, 2017

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Materialism is an impoverished perspective on nature, and it creates, rather than solves, problems in metaphysics and science. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 21, 2017

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Physical Sciences
Science
Tagged
, __edited, Adam Frank, Aristotle, change, convergent evolution, David Klinghoffer, electron, form, intelligibility, materialism, matter, mind-body problem, quantum mechanics, science, Werner Heisenberg}

What Is Matter? The Aristotelian Perspective

_{Michael Egnor
July 21, 2017

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Physical Sciences, Science

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Writing here yesterday, I pointed out the problems with materialist metaphysics. Read More ›