Tag: memories

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 5, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, artificial inteligence, bat, books, chimp, China, computer program, data, dog, Human, Immanuel Kant, Johns Hopkins University, Jorge Luis Borges, loss, love, memories, Ming Dynasty, mortality, movies, neuroscience, philosophy, quantum realm, Ray Kurzweil, reason, simulation, The Immortal Mind, The Rigor of Angels, Thomas Nagel, Werner Heisenberg, William Egginton}

Your Mind Uploaded to AI Would Not Be You

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 5, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

In death, the immortal mind, whose memories the computer supposedly holds, has moved on. The simulation may be a good one but it is not a surviving self. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, awake patients, brain, brain cortex, brain networks, brain stimulations, brain surgery, Christof Koch, Denyse O'Leary, electrical probe, fMRI studies, Integrated information theory, memories, mind, neuronal activation, neuroscience, Robert J. Marks II, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Debating the Legacy of Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield

_{Michael Egnor
April 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

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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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
December 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Aristotle, augustine, blood, brains, carbon dioxide, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, heart, intellect, kidneys, memories, muscles, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, oxygen, pain, Plato, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, urine, Wilder Penfield}

What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

_{Michael Egnor
December 17, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

6}

A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 12, 2024

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, experiences, hippocampus, memories, mice, neuroscience, New York University, place cells, post-traumatic stress disorder, sleep, The Scientist, Wired}

Sleeping Mice Show How the Brain Lays Down Memories

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 12, 2024

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Studies of mice running mazes have shed light on the sharp waves of neurons that assist in forming memories. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 29, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain damage, chess, computer, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, knowledge, Ludwig Wittgenstein, M. R. Bennett, memories, memory, metaphor, mind, neuroscience, P. M. S. Hacker, philosophers, Philosophical Foundations of Neuroscience, storage}

Memories Are Not “Stored” in the Brain; Here’s Why

_{Michael Egnor
February 29, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

It doesn’t make any sense to talk about the “storage” of non-physical entities. Philosophers like to call that a "category error." Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain states, death, dreams, hippocampus, knowledge, memories, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, soul, YouTube videos}

Are Memories “Stored” in the Brain?

_{Michael Egnor
February 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The answer has implications both for neuroscience and for our deeper understanding of the mind-body relationship. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
June 19, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Altos Labs, artificial intelligence, Boy Scouts, C.S. Lewis, ChatGPT, consciousness, disinformation, Jane Studdock, John Donne, Mark Studdock, Marshall McLuhan, memories, nuclear war, OpenAI, Out of the Silent Planet, Paul Kingsnorth, Perelandra, Peter Kreeft, science fiction, That Hideous Strength, transhumanism}

At the Altar of that Hideous Strength

_{Peter Biles
June 19, 2023

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

7}

C. S. Lewis's classic science fiction tale is about the temptation to reject being human. Read More ›

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Author
Paul Nelson

Date
May 8, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, cats, Center for Science and Culture, development, Discovery Institute, evo-devo, evolution, lectures, memories, Summer Seminars, Zoom}

Why Building Animals Is Hard

_{Paul Nelson
May 8, 2020

Evolution, Intelligent Design

1}

This lecture represents material I have presented for the past few years, under the heading of “evo-devo,” or “evolution and development.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 13, 2017

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, amygdala, Bob Hope, brain, Douglas Axe, hippocampus, knowledge, lipids, memories, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, proteins, temporal lobe}

Thanks for the Memory

_{David Klinghoffer
September 13, 2017

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

3}

Protein chemist Doug Axe responds in characteristically incisive fashion to a typical silly instance of science reporting. Read More ›