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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, craniopagus twins, David Klinghoffer, Denyse O'Leary, documentary, Krista Hogan, matter, mind, neuroscience, physiology, Roger Sperry, soul, spirit, Tatiana Hogan, Thomistic dualism, 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, Hedda Hassel Mørch, John Searle, Max Tegmark, mind, neuroscience, panpsychism, Patricia Churchland, 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 ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 15, 2017

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, brain death, California, death certificate, Jahi McMath, life, neuroscience, New Jersey, Wesley Smith}

Wesley Smith Visits Jahi McMath

_{David Klinghoffer
September 15, 2017

Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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“I nearly jumped out of my shoes,” Wesley reports. I think I would, too. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 13, 2017

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __k-review, amygdala, brain, Douglas Axe, hippocampus, knowledge, lipids, memories, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, proteins}

Thanks for the Memory

_{David Klinghoffer
September 13, 2017

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Protein chemist Doug Axe responds in characteristically incisive fashion to a typical silly instance of science reporting. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 20, 2017

Categories
Biology
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Science
Tagged
, __edited, Adam Frank, Aristotle, Cartesian dualism, David Klinghoffer, electron, materialism, neuroscience, René Descartes, res cogitans, res extensa}

What Is Matter? The Materialist Perspective

_{Michael Egnor
July 20, 2017

Biology, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics, Science

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Materialism isn’t really a metaphysical theory. It’s just a mistake. It’s a woefully inadequate understanding of nature. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 1, 2017

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, Adrian Owen, Aristotle, brain, First Things, Francis Crick, materialism, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, neurosurgery, soul, Thomas Aquinas}

Neuroscientist Michael Egnor on Thomas Aquinas and “A Map of the Soul”

_{David Klinghoffer
July 1, 2017

Neuroscience & Mind

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Patients missing large parts of their brain tissue can lead normal lives because the material, the tissue, is not all there is to us. Read More ›

Inexperienced painter painted having problems, The concept of working problems.

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 14, 2016

Categories
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __nedited, aboutness, Cartesian dualism, consciousness, David Chalmers, dualism, hard problem of consciousness, hylomorphism, intentionality, materialism, mind, neuroscience, Reductionism, René Descartes, self-awareness, sensations, Thomism}

What Is Consciousness?

_{Michael Egnor
July 14, 2016

Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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René Descartes in the 17th century created the Hard Problem of consciousness, out of whole cloth. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 9, 2013

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, __k-review, Arizona, crime, death penalty, free will, Jerry Coyne, neuroscience, punishment}

Scientific Anti-Humanism Is Being Refuted by Science Itself

_{David Klinghoffer
May 9, 2013

Bioethics, Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Darwin taught that life is the product of blind, meaningless, purposeless churning -- making all life, including human, hardly more special or dignified than cosmic refuse. Read More ›

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Author
Joshua Youngkin

Date
May 9, 2013

Categories
Legal Science (jurisprudence)
Social Sciences
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, __edited, __video-unavailable, Arizona, crime, death penalty, free will, Jerry Coyne, Nation, neuroscience, News, punishment}

Is Jodi Arias a Man-Eating Tiger?

_{Joshua Youngkin
May 9, 2013

Legal Science (jurisprudence), Social Sciences

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Any system of justice that would not meaningfully distinguish between man and beast is not worthy of the name. Read More ›

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Date
November 23, 2011

Categories
Ethics
Intelligent Design
Mathematics
Tagged
, __k-review, Alexander Tsiaras, birth, conception, free will, neuroscience, Phillip E. Johnson}

Darwin on Trial: The Implications for Neuroscience and Ethics

_{Science & Culture
November 23, 2011

Ethics, Intelligent Design, Mathematics

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Neuroscientist Patricia Churchland cites Prairie Voles to illustrate how chemical processes inform morality. Prairie Voles with a greater number of oxytocin receptors were monogamous while those with fewer such receptors were not. Read More ›