Tag: neuroscience

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Author
Emily Reeves

Date
October 19, 2026

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Andrew Huberman, animal impulse, Arthur Brooks, calling, citations, Darwinian evolution, Dogs, dopamine, enjoyment, evolution, faith, foresight, h-index, happiness, Huberman Lab, human agents, human brain, human exceptionalism, humans, idols, intelligent design, love, macronutrients, mammals, meaning, Microsoft Word, moral aspiration, neuroscience, parahippocampal gyrus, persistence, philosophy, planning, pleasure, prefrontal cortex, rape, religion, satisfaction, survival of the fittest, thirst, virtue, water, worship}

Happiness Comes When Humans Fulfill Our Designed Purpose

_{Emily Reeves
October 19, 2026

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Our mind, our brain, our physical as well as our metaphysical existence are all designed to deliver satisfaction only after our suffering toward a goal. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 12, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bones, China, Daniel R. Storm, David J. Linden, evolution, human brain, injuries, intelligent design, kludge, mice, Nature Neuroscience, Nautilus, neuroscience, PIEZO1, pigs, shins, Southern Medical University, stem cells, strokes, The Accidental Mind, traumatic brain injuries, vesicles, Zachary S. Scheiner}

Book on “Brain Evolution” Hasn’t Aged Well

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 12, 2026

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The first problem they mention is magnified. We haven’t got anywhere near figuring out “how the brain works.” Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 5, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, biology, body, brain, brain damage, Denyse O’Leary, ideas, immaterial genome, immaterial reality, information, instantiations, intellect, materialistic paradigm, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, physical organs, Plato, quantum world, Richard Sternberg, Secrets of the Human Body, The Immortal Mind, will}

Dr. Egnor: The “Platonic Turn” in Science

_{David Klinghoffer
October 5, 2026

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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There is a “disconnect” between a physical organ of the body — the brain — and the “immortal mind,” the human spirit, that transcends it. Read More ›

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Date
September 28, 2026

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Ars Technica, brain, designer, engineering, evolution, forebrain, hindbrain, John Timmer, midbrain, Nature (journal), nervous system, neurons, neuroscience, reptilian brain, signaling molecules, skin, Stanford University, tail, Tudor Tarita, two brains, vertebrates, ZME Science}

Remarkable Engineering and the “Two Brains” Myth

_{Science & Culture
September 28, 2026

Biology, Engineering, Neuroscience & Mind

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Did two brains evolve into one? This is not a left brain/right brain thing. It is more like claims for a reptilian brain underlying our mammalian one. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 22, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, arithmetic, brain, denial, Denyse O’Leary, dualism, emotions, human existence, humans, intellect, materialism, memories, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroscience, neuroscientists, open-brain surgery, organs, philosophers, reality, Secrets of the Human Body, sensations, soul, The Immortal Mind, theologians, Wilder Penfield, will}

Dr. Egnor: Denying the Mystery of the Mind

_{David Klinghoffer
September 22, 2026

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The mind, operating outside the body, can use reason to add 1 and 1 and reach a sum of 2. The brain cannot. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 10, 2026

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carl Sagan, emotion, evolution, explainaway, falsified theories, Georgia Tech, human brain, limbic system, lizard brain, neuroscience, overthinking, Paul D. MacLean, physiology, pop psychology, reptilian brain, Science Daily, smarts, social anxiety, The Dragons of Eden, universe}

Return of the Lizard Brain? It Seems Not

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 10, 2026

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s easy to see why people might latch onto the idea of a reptilian brain as an explainer, or an explainaway, for complex topics. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Behind and Beyond the Brain Symposium, brains, Christof Koch, Closer to Truth, cognition, David Chalmers, emotions, filter model, hard problem of consciousness, Human Immortality (book), Integrated information theory, J. L. Saver, J. Rabin, materialism, mental awareness, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, paradoxical lucidity, Peter Kreeft, reality, receptors, reducing valve, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Science Daily, sensations, senses, terminal lucidity, thoughts, universe, William James}

What if the Brain Is a Filter?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 17, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea would provides insight into one of the most significant characteristics of near-death experiences, the extraordinary lucidity that experiencers report. Read More ›

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Author
Terrell Clemmons

Date
July 27, 2026

Categories
Anatomy
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Abby Hafer, academic rigor, bad design, Bristol University, David Coppedge, Discovery Institute, evolution, evolutionists, glial cells, Human Errors, human eye, image sharpness, intelligent design, Jonathan Wells, Leipzig University, light, Lucy Hyde, Nathan Lents, neuroscience, popular literature, Responding to Lucy Hyde (series), retina, Science and Culture Today, Scientific American, Stuart Burgess, The Conversation, The Not-So-Intelligent Designer, Ultimate Engineering, wiring, zombies}

“Design Strength on Multiple Levels”: More Ultimate Wiring with Stuart Burgess

_{Terrell Clemmons
July 27, 2026

Anatomy, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The eye is one of the most striking embarrassing examples of claimed bad design by evolutionists. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 24, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, brain, Bruce Greyson, cardiac arrest, Charlotte Martial, coma, dying brain, emergency room, evidence, evolution, evolutionary psychology, explainaway, Galileo Galilei, geocentric cosmology, Kristin French, Marieta Pehlivanova, Mark Johnson, Messiah University, Michael Egnor, Michael Zignarelli, Nautilus, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, opossum, optical illusions, possum, Real Clear Science, stereotypical behavior, thanatosis, Venus, Washington Post}

What’s an Explainaway? Here Is an Example from the Debate on Near-Death Experiences

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 24, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Explainaways, whether possum tales or optical illusions, exist to protect a system from unwanted evidence by ignoring or dismissing it. Read More ›

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Date
July 23, 2026

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Zoology
Tagged
, asocial brain, body temperature, brain, cephalopods, cuttlefish, dog, dolphins, ectotherm, endotherms, habitat, intelligence, iScience, Jennifer Mather, Jess Cockerill, Lisa Hendry, mammals, mirror, Natural History Museum, neurology, neurons, neuroscience, octopus, ScienceAlert, shellfish, social brain, squid, University of Lethbridge, whales}

Hey Octopus, How Did You Get to Be So Smart?

_{Science & Culture
July 23, 2026

Neuroscience & Mind, Zoology

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With the asocial brain hypothesis, researchers ask us to think beyond traditional explanations for why some animals display unexpected intelligence. Read More ›