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Panpsychism
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A Sympathetic Account of Panpsychism

“Modern physics was founded on the separation of mind and matter.” Indeed, it was. And if that doesn’t work, materialism is dead. Read More ›
crab
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Researchers Ask — Serious Question — Do Crabs Have Emotions?

Recent research has created some unexpected ethical problems for the seafood industry. Read More ›
brain
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Yes, the Human Brain Is the Most Complex Thing in the Universe

Our brains have actually shrunk by 10 percent over the last 40,000 years, coinciding with spectacular intellectual achievements. Read More ›
Jumping Spider
Photo: Phidippus audax, a North American jumping spider, via Wikimedia Commons.

Spiders Are Smart; Be Glad They Are Small

Recent research has shed light on the intriguing strategies that spiders use to deceive other spiders — and prey in general. Read More ›
Marcelo Gleiser
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Does Science Disprove Free Will? A Physicist Says No

Marcelo Gleiser notes that the mind is not a solar system with strict deterministic laws. Read More ›
Stephen Meyer
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Meyer, Hedin, Dembski, Luskin Shine in World Magazine Book of the Year Awards

Dr. Meyer isn’t merely tearing down a competing, nihilistic picture of reality, but instead revealing the positive, meaningful one toward which science increasingly directs our attention. Read More ›
human brain
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Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience

Wilder Penfield concluded that free will is not in the brain — it is an immaterial power of the mind.  Read More ›
mechanical brain
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Neurosurgeon and Neuropsychologist Agree: The Brain Is Not the Mind

"I had to understand what people were and what the mind was in order to make sense of neuroscience! And I still find that." Read More ›
brain
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Where and What Is Consciousness?

If humans are just “robots made of meat,” then the seat of consciousness ought to be locatable somewhere in the brain. Read More ›
Michael Egnor
Photo: Michael Egnor at the inauguration of the Walter Bradley Center for Natural & Artificial Intelligence, by Nathan Jacobson.

Why Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor Stopped Being a Materialist Atheist

"It seemed to me that there had to be a conductor to this orchestra. But being an atheist, I didn’t think that was possible." Read More ›

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