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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, agency, brain, consciousness, dualism, epilepsy, free will, materialism, mind, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, patients, science, stimulation, truth, Wilder Penfield}

Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield on Free Will

_{Michael Egnor
July 26, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Materialists claim that neuroscience has demonstrated that free will is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 17, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, computation, consciousness, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, Mind Matters, neuroscience, neurosurgery, spirituality, thought}

Egnor: Why Machines Will Never Think

_{David Klinghoffer
July 17, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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This doesn’t mean that people will not abuse the power of AI to hurt each other, and hurt themselves. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Benjamin Libet, brain, Edward Feser, English literature, handicapped, Hannah Arendt, intelligence, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, middle school, neuroscience, newborn, patients, physician, soul, Thomas Aquinas, ultrasound, Wilder Penfield}

Neuroscientist Michael Egnor, the Philosophical Physician, on Science and the Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2018

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Try to read his essay through to the end without getting chills. Read More ›

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Author
Ann Gauger

Date
June 6, 2018

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, beauty, Cicero, David Hume, Denis Dutton, evolution, Gerard Manley Hopkins, horse, Johann Sebastian Bach, monet, music, natural selection, neuroscience, New York Times, Paul Davies, Peter S. Williams, Pleistocene, sea urchins, sexual dimorphism, symmetry}

Beauty Leads Us Home

_{Ann Gauger
June 6, 2018

Arts, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Why is the world a beautiful place and why does it touch me? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
April 11, 2018

Categories
Arts
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __k-review, Aristotle, cosmic fine-tuning, cosmopsychism, Hungary, intelligent design, materialism, Michael Egnor, multiverse, neuroscience, Philip Goff, podcast, Sarah Chaffee, theism, Thomas Aquinas, universe}

Egnor: Two Weaknesses of Agentive Cosmopsychism

_{David Klinghoffer
April 11, 2018

Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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There are a limited number of explanations available for how cosmic fine-tuning came to be. Actually, there are three. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
February 5, 2018

Categories
Chemistry
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, action potentials, brain, cat, intellect, justice, materalism, mind, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, Tabby, universals, will}

The Representation Problem and the Immateriality of the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
February 5, 2018

Chemistry, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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If I think about a particular thing — my cat Tabby, for example — my actual cat Tabby isn’t in my brain. Read More ›

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Date
December 13, 2017

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __nedited, Benjamin Libet, brian, craniopagus twins, eyes, ID the Future, Krista Hogan, limbs, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Roger Sperry, Tatiana Hogan, thalamus, vision, wakefulness, Wilder Penfield}

Listen: What Craniopagus Twins Say about Mind and Brain

_{Science and Culture
December 13, 2017

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Neurosurgery professor Michael Egnor explores the amazing case of Tatiana and Krista Hogan. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 4, 2017

Categories
Evolution
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, __k-review, artificial intelligence, Carl Sagan, Dan Brown, Darwinian evolution, David Stove, extraterrestrials, fake news, intelligent design, John Gray, Karl Popper, Live Science, loneliness, Mars, MIT, naturalism, neuroscience, Sarah Jones, Stephen Hawking, Wesley J. Smith}

Mock at Your Peril! Naturalism Is a Jealous Fraud

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 4, 2017

Evolution, Physical Sciences

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It’s not just that media-darling disciplines ruled by naturalism fail the facts. They fail at precisely the points where they should succeed if naturalism were true. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
November 24, 2017

Categories
Botany
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, abstract thought, animals, Benjamin Libet, brain, CBC TV, craniopagus twins, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, documentary, Krista Hogan, matter, mind, neuroscience, physiology, rational powers, Roger Sperry, soul, spirit, Tatiana Hogan, Thomistic dualism, vegetative powers, Wilder Penfield}

What the Craniopagus Twins Teach Us About the Mind and the Brain

_{Michael Egnor
November 24, 2017

Botany, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Tatiana and Krista Hogan's shared and individual powers of mind are just what Thomistic dualism predicts. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 28, 2017

Categories
Cosmology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Daniel Dennett, Donald Hoffman, evidence, Francis Crick, Giulio Tonioni, Hedda Hassel Mørch, John Searle, Max Tegmark, mind, neuroscience, panpsychism, Patricia Churchland, post-modern, Roger Penrose, science, Sean Carroll, Steven Novella}

Post-Modern Science: The Illusion of Consciousness Sees Through Itself

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 28, 2017

Cosmology, Neuroscience & Mind

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“It’s quite plausible” is treated as equivalent to evidence, eliding the question of how exactly we come to “consciously believe” anything. Read More ›