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Michael Egnor

Date
March 9, 2020

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Astronomy
Biology
Physical Sciences
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The “Surprisingly Consistent” Answer to the Question: Are We Alone in the Universe?

_{Michael Egnor
March 9, 2020

Astronomy, Biology, Physical Sciences

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The firm belief in extraterrestrial life — a belief nearly universal in the scientific community — is an act of faith. Read More ›

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January 12, 2020

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Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, Adrian Owen, brain, ID the Future, Michael Egnor, mind, MRI, neuroscience, neurosurgery, podcast, Ray Bohlin, Stony Brook University}

Michael Egnor: How Experiments Show that the Mind Is More than the Brain

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January 12, 2020

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind

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Oddities of neuroscience that indicate that there is more going on in the brain than mere chemistry. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 25, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, brain, chimpanzees, consciousness, David Chalmers, emergence, evolution, hologram, Johann Sebastian Bach, Kurt Gödel, machine, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, predictions, rules, TED talk, The Atlantic}

Back-to-Back, Failed Visions of the “Brain as a Supercomputer”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 25, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 22, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, abstract thought, Benjamin Libet, cerebral cortex, Darwinian evolution, Devil, dualism, magic, materialism, Michael Egnor, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, psychiatry, Roger Sperry, Science Uprising, seizures, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, superstition, University of Toronto, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma

_{David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 16, 2019

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, __edited, cloning, evil, human cloning, in vitro fertilization, Jay Richards, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, pregnancy, rape, Roman Catholic, soul, theology, Thomism}

Jay Richards Responds to Michael Egnor on Cloning

_{David Klinghoffer
July 16, 2019

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Cloning a human being is a terrifying prospect, from a moral perspective, and seems inevitable. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 8, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, abstract thought, brain, cloning, DNA, embryos, gestation, human cloning, intellect, mammals, matter, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, proteins, scientific evidence, somatic cell nuclear transfer, testability, Wesley J. Smith, will}

Egnor: How to Test Materialist Theories of Mind

_{David Klinghoffer
July 8, 2019

Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2019

Categories
Cosmology
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
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, __edited, atheism, Bill Nye, brain, cosmic fine-tuning, hallucination, illusion, intelligent design, Lawrence Krauss, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, popcorn, reality, science, Science Uprising, self-hatred, social psychology, Steven Novella, Yale University}

What Explains the “I Suck” Principle?

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2019

Cosmology, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 27, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, abstract thought, atheism, brain, debate, epilepsy, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Neural Networks, neuroscience, psychiatry, Science Uprising, Stony Brook University, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 27, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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From Dr. Faizal Ali, it looks like another case of Materialism-of-the-Gaps reasoning. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 25, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, __edited, abstract thought, brain, critics, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, nature, Neil deGrasse Tyson, neuroscience, Plato, science, Science Uprising, Stony Brook University, truth}

Science Uprising — Michael Egnor Responds to a (Thoughtful) Critic

_{David Klinghoffer
June 25, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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“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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 18, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, Adam Smith, Benjamin Libet, brain, fundamentalism, Jeffrey Schwartz, Jerry Coyne, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, robot, Science Uprising, scientism, UCLA}

How Research on OCD Challenges Materialism

_{David Klinghoffer
June 18, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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How does one “convince” a robot of anything, when changing your mind about an issue implies free will, which materialists are impelled to deny? Read More ›