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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 1, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anesthesia, brain, brain hemispheres, brain syndromes, brainstem, cerebellum, cognition, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, hemihydranencephaly, hydranencephaly, hydrocephalus, immortality, Karina Kofman, Michael Levin, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Research, souls, terminal lucidity, thalamus, The Immortal Mind}

We Can Learn About the Mind from Damaged Brains

_{Michael Egnor
April 1, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Now we have solid neuroscience to show that the theologians and philosophers were and are right. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, animal behavior, brain, Caenorhabditis elegans, connectome, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, dopamine, egg laying, evolution, fasting, feeding, information, intelligent design, interneurons, Journal of Neurochemistry, learning, mating, memory, motor neurons, movement, Nature (journal), nematode, Neural Networks, neurons, neuropeptide, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, sensory neurons, 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
Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, Alan McComas, Alzheimer’s disease, Aristotle, atoms, behaviorism, Benjamin Libet, brain, breathing, concept cells, conception, consciousness, eliminative materialism, functionalism, galaxies, glaciers, heartbeat, hippocampi, hydranencephaly, identity theory, Justine Sergent, machine, molecules, neurons, neuroscience, perception, pineal gland, planets, pseudoscience, René Descartes, Roger Sperry, Scientific American, soul, trees, Werner Heisenberg, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Looking for Consciousness in All the Wrong Places

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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If concept cells nestled in the hippocampi were the seat of consciousness, bilateral hippocampal destruction would cause loss of consciousness. It doesn’t. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 5, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, brains, color, consciousness, Darwinism, determinism, evolution, Free Agents, free will, hard problem of consciousness, intelligent design, Kevin Mitchell, materialism, materialists, Michael Levin, naturalism, neurons, pain, Platonism, purpose, randomness, René Descartes, will}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will? (Continued)

_{Daniel Witt
March 5, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The door is open to other causes — even those that neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell himself would prefer to keep out. Read More ›

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Eric Cassell

Date
January 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
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, analogy, animal behavior, ants, beetles, behavior, brains, electronic circuits, entomology, hummingbirds, microinsects, miniaturization, Neural Networks, neurons, nucleus, semiconductors, synapses, wasps}

By Design: Brain Miniaturization in Some Very Small Insects

_{Eric Cassell
January 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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Does reduced brain size affect the behavior of animals? The answer appears to be that there is no effect. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 24, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, brain cells, cats, chimpanzees, genes, human brain, humans, ideas, mice, Nature (journal), neurons, proteins, RNA, University of California San Francisco}

What’s the Big Deal About the Human Brain?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 24, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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None of the features identified by neuroscientists explain why humans think about things that other animal life forms don't. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
November 14, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brains, C. elegans, coherence, complexity, cortex, crystals, efficiency, flight control, fruit flies, intelligent design, morphology, mouse, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, optimization, pheromones, Research, snowflake, specified complexity}

Design, Engineering, Specified Complexity: Appreciating the Fruit Fly Brain

_{Eric Cassell
November 14, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Groundbreaking new research has documented the complexity and design of the brains of fruit flies. Read More ›

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Author
Howard Glicksman

Date
September 17, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, brainstem, cell membrane, cells, chemicals, death, diffusion, evolutionary biologists, extracellular fluid, extraterrestrial life, Günter Bechly, hospice, information, just-so stories, liquid water, molecular machines, multicellular organism, neurons, osmosis, proteins, sodium, sodium ions, sodium-potassium pump, Steve Laufmann, The Extracellular Space (series), The Wonder of Water, water, Your Designed Body}

Water Is a Problem, and Your Body Has an Ingenious Solution

_{Howard Glicksman
September 17, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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The sodium-potassium pump is an innovation that allows your cells to combat the forces of nature and in doing so, prevents disaster. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain injury, Carl Zimmer, Charles Camosy, civil rights, consciousness, electronics, human brain, humanity, Neuralink, neurons}

We’ve Discovered “Covert Consciousness” — But Now What?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Creighton University Medical School prof Charles Camosy thinks it is time for something like a civil rights movement for people in this state. Read More ›

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Author
David Coppedge

Date
August 29, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, adaptability, engineers, flexibility, information flow, molecular machines, neurons, parkour, PNAS, proteins, Science (journal), Singapore, squirrels, synaptic transmission}

Wrap Your Mind Around the Synapse — Just Try

_{David Coppedge
August 29, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The method neurons use to transfer signals seems like a kludge. But it works astonishingly fast and efficiently. Read More ›