Tag: neuroscientists

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, assumptions, awake brain surgery, bank account, brain, chimpanzee genome, Chronicles Magazine, consciousness, human mind, John Zmirak, material reality, materialism, materialists, meaning, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgery, Reductionism, Roman Catholics, science, The Immortal Mind, veridical}

Science Without Materialism: Yes, It Would Still Work

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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What if we assume that our minds really are immaterial? Math still adds up, physics and chemistry are still true, logic still works. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 29, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Àlex Gómez-Marín, algorithms, artificial inteligence, backyard telescope, Bible, cats, chatbots, Closer to Truth, computer program, consciousness, Dogs, humans, hype, James Webb Space Telescope, mirrors, mushrooms, neuroscientists, Old Testament, physicists, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, robots, trees, Turing test}

AI Consciousness Hype “Conflates Simulation with Instantiation”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 29, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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Robert Lawrence Kuhn interviewed a Spanish physicist turned neuroscientist, Àlex Gómez-Marín, on whether AI can become conscious. Read More ›

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
August 28, 2025

Categories
Ethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aristotle, brain, careers, causation, Christof Koch, Denyse O’Leary, divorce, epiphenomena, families, free will, friendships, grants, human trafficking, jobs, livelihoods, machines, marriages, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, moral responsibility, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, philosophers, Plato, preference falsification, promotions, Saint Augustine, scientists, sexual abuse, soul, The Immortal Mind, theologians, worldview}

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

_{John Zmirak
August 28, 2025

Ethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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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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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 7, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 4th of July, americans, atheists, blueberries, Christof Koch, CNN, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Institute, faith and science, fireworks, Gaza, Independence Day, Israel, journalists, July 4, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, near-death experiences, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, Piers Morgan, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Roman Catholics, Scripture, Seattle, skeptics, Sunday Times, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos}

World’s “Best-Known Journalist” Meets Michael Egnor

_{David Klinghoffer
July 7, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Piers Morgan, who is Catholic, says he already believed in life after death from faith and Scripture. What he wanted, he said, was scientific evidence for it. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 4, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Attention Schema Theory, brain, brain hemispheres, cerebral cortex, Christof Koch, consciousness, doctors, family, Global Workspace Theory, Higher Order Theory, Integrated information theory, laughter, materialism, meat machines, mind, neuroscientists, nurses, Predictive Processing Theory, René Descartes, soul, subjective experience, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

The Boy Who Proved Most Theories of Consciousness Wrong

_{Michael Egnor
June 4, 2025

Anatomy, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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He was unequivocally conscious — without a cerebral cortex and even without brain hemispheres. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
May 2, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Allen Brain Institute, Allison Parshall, COGITATE, cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Robert Chis-Ciure, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex}

Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness

_{Denyse O’Leary
May 2, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 8, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, alien hand syndrome, antiseizure medications, biotechnology, brain, Broca’s area, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, corpus callosum, Gonzalo Munevar, Hannah Thomasy, hemispheres, language, Lawrence Technical University, Michael Egnor, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, Roger Sperry, sci-fi, Severance (sci-fi series), split-brain patients, split-brain syndrome, The Immortal Mind, The Scientist}

One Brain, Two Consciousnesses?

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 8, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 2, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, 1 percent myth, brains, chimpanzees, connectivity, decision-making, DNA, human brains, humans, language, neurons, neuroscientists, Oxford University, personality, planning, prefrontal cortex, Rogier Mars, sight, sound, temporal cortex, thought, Tom Howarth}

Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 2, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!” Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 11, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Big Bang, biologists, causes, conscious experience, Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will, explanations, free will, gravity, infinite chain, infinite regress, movement, neuroscientists, Peter Corning, philosophers, physical universe, physicists, promissory note, quantum mechanics, Robert Sapolsky, Stanford University, turtles, universe}

Revenge of the Turtle Lady

_{Daniel Witt
March 11, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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You’ve probably heard the story about the old lady who tells a Famous Professor that the world is actually sitting on the back of giant turtle. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 4, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, agency, Benjamin Libet, brain, compatibilism, Darwinian processes, Denyse O'Leary, Determined (book), evolution, Free Agents, free will, Kevin Mitchell, materialists, muscles, neurobiology, neuroscientists, randomness, Robert Sapolsky, Trinity College Dublin}

Did Evolution Give Us Free Will?

_{Daniel Witt
March 4, 2025

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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If you pick up a book up about free will by a materialist, you are generally safe to assume that the point will be to explain that free will is an illusion. Read More ›