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Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 17, 2025

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, biology, brain, Cambridge University, cell, decision-making, food, French National Centre for Scientific Research, information, memory, navigation}

Slime Mold: Thanks for the Memories

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 17, 2025

Biology, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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In recent decades, researchers have been learning about memory in slime molds which have neither a brain nor neurons. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, awareness, computers, decay, decisions, fungi, humans, intelligence, Japan, learning, machine cognition, machines, memory, Michelle Starr, nature rights, neuroscience, panpsychism, Science Alert, slime molds, thinking, Tohoku University, transhumanism}

Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 15, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, abstract thought, brain, dementia, dying, immaterial powers, justice, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, moral choice, music, paradoxical lucidity, perception, reason, Stony Brook University, Supreme Court, The Immortal Mind, veterans}

Dementia Hints That the Brain Is Not All There Is to the Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception, and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 10, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atoms, brain, brain function, Denyse O'Leary, human mind, intellect, materialism, materialists, memory, mind, numbers, perception, universe, vision, wavelengths}

Logic Shows Abstract Thought Is an Immaterial Power

_{Michael Egnor
June 10, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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There are also logical reasons for thinking that the intellect is immaterial, which means spiritual. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
May 19, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, brain, brain function, brain hemispheres, Denyse O'Leary, dualism, emotion, free will, heartbeat, ID the Future, materialism, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, nature, near-death experiences, neurosurgery, Pam Reynolds, perception, podcast, reason, relatives, soul, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, thought}

The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism

_{Andrew McDiarmid
May 19, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Dr. Egnor challenges the Darwinian view, arguing that abstract thought and free will are immaterial and could not have arisen via natural selection. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 6, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, abstract thought, Aristotle, blood pressure, brain function, brain state, breathing, Denyse O'Leary, Edward Feser, elementary particles, emotion, heart rate, hormones, intellect, logic, matter, measurements, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroscience, perception, photons, Plato, precision, puppy, soul, triangle, uncertainty, Uncertainty Principle, will}

The Logical Basis of the Immaterial Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 6, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The indeterminacy of matter precludes brain states from forming the basis of abstract thought. Simple logic points to this truth. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
April 23, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Animal Algorithms, birds, compass, intelligent design, magnetic field, magnetoreception, memory, migration, Nature (journal), navigation, sea turtles}

Sea Turtles and Their Trusty Magnetic Compass

_{Eric Cassell
April 23, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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All of these elements exhibit specified complexity that is indicative of intelligent design. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 28, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adulthood, adults, babies, Columbia University, hippocampus, infancy, memory, sci-fi, Science (journal), Yale University}

Why Don’t We Remember Being Babies?

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 28, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If we were not conscious, we could hardly have learned all that we had to learn in those first few months of life. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal behavior, brain, Caenorhabditis elegans, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, dopamine, egg laying, evolution, fasting, information, intelligent design, Journal of Neurochemistry, learning, memory, motor neurons, movement, Nature (journal), nematode, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, serotonin, synapses}

“Directed Evolution”: The Tiniest Brain Is Not Simple

_{Eric Cassell
March 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Even a cursory examination of the connectome shows the complexity of the brain, despite its tiny size. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, chemists, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, decision-making, Gaia, Galen Strawson, human consciousness, materialism, memory, panpsychism, philosophers, physicalism, Robert Wright, thinking}

Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›