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Remember This: Memory Requires Intelligent Design

The brain assists the organization and recall of thoughts by segmenting them and associating them with stimuli. But who is doing the thinking? Read More ›
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How Does a Religious Studies Professor Become a Darwinian Skeptic?

The perpetuation of Darwinian ideology comes at the cost of truly grappling with the profound nature of the question of biological origins. Read More ›
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Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer” 

Douglas Hofstadter argued in much the same vein as Henry Markham, that the brain can be understand in rules-bound machine terms. Read More ›
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An Invitation: Science, Culture, and the COSM Conference

Discovery is getting ready to enter into a conversation with leaders in the information and technology industry, centered in Seattle. Read More ›
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Jay Richards Responds to Michael Egnor on Cloning

Cloning a human being is a terrifying prospect, from a moral perspective, and seems inevitable. Read More ›
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Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind

A premise here is that abstract thought is a unique human endowment, so our colleague Wesley Smith will also find this of interest as a scientific test of human exceptionalism. Read More ›
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Moreland, Witt: Not “All Body,” but Not “All Spirit” Either

The materialist idea that you are “all body” — nothing but matter — is hardly more dangerous than the opposite idea, that you are “all spirit.” Read More ›
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What Explains the “I Suck” Principle?

Writing at Mind Matters, Michael Egnor dissects another illustration of the “I Suck” impulse at work. It’s from his fellow neuroscientist Steven Novella. Read More ›
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Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?

From Dr. Faizal Ali, it looks like another case of Materialism-of-the-Gaps reasoning. Read More ›
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Science Uprising — Michael Egnor Responds to a (Thoughtful) Critic

“Although higher thought is not localizable to one region of the brain, it may be distributed to neurons throughout the brain.” Read More ›

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