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Denyse O’Leary

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August 24, 2023

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Linguistics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, creativity, Iain McGilchrist, lobes, neuroscience, Neuroscience News, personality, preferences, The Matter with Things, vertebrates, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart}

Right Brain Vs. Left Brain? It’s Murky

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August 24, 2023

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Vertebrates generally have brains divided into two lobes, an arrangement that may go back half a billion years. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

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August 6, 2023

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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, brain hemispheres, consciousness, eliminative materialism, Iain McGilchrist, Justin Brierley, neuroscience, panpsychism, psychiatry, qualia, Scientific American, The Matter with Things, Unbelievable}

Understanding the Mind: A Neuroscientist and a Psychiatrist Walk into a…

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August 6, 2023

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What’s most interesting about this discussion is how well the life of the intellect, engaged by science, gets on without guidance from eliminative materialism. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

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July 31, 2023

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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, Canada, consciousness, dementia, euthanasia, memory, neurobiology, neuroscience, paradoxical lucidity, Stony Brook University}

Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research

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July 31, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 27, 2023

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Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
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, Anil Seth, body, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, consciousness spot, David Chalmers, hallucinations, human brain, Monash University, Nature (journal), Nautilus, neuroscience, University of Sussex}

Neuroscientist Vows: We’ll Nail Consciousness Yet!

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July 27, 2023

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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Anil Seth, proponent of the “hallucination” theory of consciousness, vows that researchers will find that consciousness spot or circuit in the brain. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

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July 21, 2023

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Linguistics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, autopsy, brain imaging, cerebral cortex, Live Science, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, nose, smell, temporal lobe, The Human Soul, women, Yasemin Saplakoglu}

How Can a Woman Missing Her Olfactory Bulbs Still Smell?

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July 21, 2023

Linguistics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The brain’s plasticity intrigues and puzzles researcher, and it also raises a larger issue. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 1, 2023

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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
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, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, consciousness spot, David Chalmers, David Papineau, dualism, human nature, information theory, Integrated information theory, Kenneth Miller, King’s College, laboratories, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, New York University, panpsychism, philosophers, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Tel Aviv University, The Human Instinct}

The Philosopher Wins: There’s No Consciousness Spot in the Brain

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July 1, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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After a 25-year search, dualist philosopher David Chalmers won the bet with neuroscientist Christof Koch. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 26, 2023

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Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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, Benjamin Libet, brain waves, Delusion, determinism, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Egnor, nerve impulses, neuroscience, Psyche, quantum mechanics, Stony Brook University, University of Missouri, volcano}

Free Will: What Are the Reasons to Believe in It?

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June 26, 2023

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real. Read More ›

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Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 12, 2023

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Evolutionary Psychology
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
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, analogy, Carl Sagan, cerebral cortex, emotions, Frank Drake, J.B.S. Haldane, language, Melvin Calvin, neocortex, neuroscience, Northeastern University, Paul D. MacLean, persistent scientific errors, Pulitzer Prize, reptiles, reptilian brain, Ross Pomeroy, textbooks, The Atlantic, triune brain theory, University of Oslo, Yale University}

Reptilian Brain Myth Is Still Alive and Kicking

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June 12, 2023

Evolutionary Psychology, Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Many psychology students are subjected to this day to an exploded pop neuroscience myth endorsed by celebrity scientist Carl Sagan. Read More ›

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Author
William A. Dembski

Date
May 22, 2023

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Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
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, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, Google Bard, human intelligence, Kurt Gödel, neuroscience, self-reference, sentences}

Breaking Google Bard

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May 22, 2023

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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The fundamental problem with these systems is Goedelian. Kurt Goedel showed that formal systems like this are unable to extract themselves from these systems. Read More ›

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Michael Egnor

Date
March 8, 2023

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Biology
Chemistry
Evolution
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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, appetite, brain, Brown University, Cartesian dualism, Christianity, consciousness, emotion, evolution, eye, intellect, Kenneth Miller, materialism, memory, mind-brain problem, neuroscience, perception, René Descartes, res cogitans, res extensa, Roman Catholic, sensations, soul, The Human Instinct, Thomas Aquinas}

Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution

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March 8, 2023

Biology, Chemistry, Evolution, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither is generated by material processes. Read More ›