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Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›
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Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness

Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music. Read More ›
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Designed to Dance? Here’s What Science Says

Dancing is not a mere add-on feature that came a couple of mutations after mankind figured out how to shamble. Read More ›
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Dementia Hints That the Brain Is Not All There Is to the Mind

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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Extraterrestrial Life Would Demonstrate Human Exceptionalism

I hope we do find life elsewhere. It would be another step in our advancement as a species. Read More ›
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February 8! 2025 Dallas Conference on Science & Faith

From the smallest honeybee to the greatest whale, planet Earth is swarming with creatures of all shapes and sizes — each designed for their habitat. Read More ›
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Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›
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What 1,000+ Brain Surgeries Taught About the Mind

Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thought. Read More ›
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Fossil Friday: Human Nature of Neanderthals Supported Again

Extended caregiving for a strongly disabled child is a highly non-Darwinian behavior that indeeds suggests compassion on a level only found in humans. Read More ›
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Singing — A Remarkable Gift, by Design

The vagus nerve is implicated in how our nervous systems respond when we engage in singing and related vocal activities. Read More ›

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