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Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Are We Meat Machines, and Why Does It Matter?

I found yours to be a fascinating and persuasive book on a crucial subject. You lay out the issues starkly. Read More ›
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A Device to Read Minds? Not What Researchers Intended, But…

"There’s a voice inside most people’s minds that comes alive when they listen, read, or prepare to speak." Read More ›
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Introducing a New Design, and a New Name

Conjoining science with culture, while it is the CSC’s calling card, is not our invention. Read More ›
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Big Announcement: Evolution News Is Now Science and Culture Today

Don’t worry, under editor David Klinghoffer, the content will remain the same. But the new name more accurately reflects an “evolution.” Read More ›
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A Reviewer Assesses Dr. Egnor on the Mind: Science Is “Catching Up” to Philosophy

In two different areas of research — the nature of the mind, and the nature of genome — science points us to the existence of an immaterial reality. Read More ›
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Conundrum: Split Brain But Unified Perception

Current research suggests that a non-materialist approach to the neuroscience of the human mind is quite viable. Read More ›
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From Science, New Respect for Non-Materialist Understandings of the Mind

Yes, there are still people who insist that science can only consider material causes and concepts. Read More ›
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Where in the Brain Does the Mind Reside?

A rabbi asks neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how consciousness can exist without a place in the brain. Read More ›
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An Ancient Argument for the Soul

Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine tells a friend about a dream a skeptical local doctor had, where a sharp youth asked him some pointed questions. Read More ›
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Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi

We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them. Read More ›

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