Tag: moral choice

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 22, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, Ben Goldfarb, brains, captivity, chimpanzees, Chloe Stevens, Darwinian assumptions, humans, intelligence, mice, moral choice, nature, Nautilus, neurons, octopuses, pain, primates, reason, researchers, rodents, Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, self-awareness}

On Fish Intelligence, We’re Misled by Darwinian Assumptions

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 22, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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The world of life is full of intelligence. Its intensity varies not with distance from the supposedly accidental human but with the life form’s need for it. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Angela Lo, brain, dementia, dying, immaterial powers, justice, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, moral choice, music, paradoxical lucidity, perception, reason, rementia, Stephen Post, 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
Denyse O’Leary

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, animals, Aristotle, behavior, Dogs, emotions, evolutionary biologists, feelings, humans, Marc Bekoff, Michael Egnor, moral choice, prejudice, Psychology Today, Racism, sensations, sexism, speciesism, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, Wesley J. Smith}

Clinical Psychologist Supports Human Exceptionalism

_{Denyse O’Leary
March 4, 2025

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology, Scientific Reasoning

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Gregg Henriques, a secular humanist, has developed an approach that accepts human exceptionalism without denying that animals have mental abilities. Read More ›

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Author
Jonathan McLatchie

Date
February 20, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, "God of the gaps", Alpha Centauri, argument from ignorance, atheism, biological information, complex life, consciousness, David Klinghoffer, Frank Turek, honesty, human consciousness, intelligent causes, intelligent design, J.P. Moreland, moral choice, natural laws, natural theology, naturalism, philosophers, Richard Swinburne, Secular Outpost, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, theism, Twitter, Victor Reppert, Volkswagen Beetle, William Laine Craig}

Atheist Philosopher Explains Why Intelligent Design Is Not a “God of the Gaps” Argument

_{Jonathan McLatchie
February 20, 2024

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design

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Despite our many disagreements, I sincerely appreciate Lowder’s spirit and intellectual honesty. I hope the next generation of secular thinkers follow his lead. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, anger, Christof Koch, Dogs, Edward Feser, emotions, fear, goats, Heaven, horses, livestock, mind, moral choice, philosophers, soul, voice}

Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Readers may wonder at first whether this research was worth doing, but hang on. It turns out that goats can understand basic emotions by voice alone. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 21, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Adam Frank, Bernardo Kastrup, Big Think, Bruce Greyson, Chronicle of Higher Education, Closer to Truth, consciousness, David Chalmers, death, hard problem of consciousness, life after death, moral choice, near-death experiences, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, npr, Scientific American, Standard Model}

Is Life After Death Incompatible with Physics?

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 21, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science, Scientific Reasoning

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In 2011, Sean Carroll wrote an essay on why — from a science perspective — our minds must be extinguished at death Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 24, 2022

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, animals, chimpanzees, conversation, Dogs, emotions, Frans de Waal, horses, James Hutton, moral choice, morality, Nautilus, right, Templeton Foundation, University of Vienna, wrong}

Claim: Research Shows Animals Have a Moral Sense

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 24, 2022

Ethics, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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We are informed at Nautilus, the Templeton Foundation’s magazine, that “ It’s time to take moral emotion in animals seriously.” Really? Read More ›