Tag: neurotransmitters

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 25, 2026

Categories
Biology
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animals, Annaka Harris, Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications, biochemists, caterpillar, cats, cells, cocooning, cognition, Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind, consciousness, Dogs, dying, environments, Epoch Times, evolution, glutamate, hierarchy, horses, human nervous system, iai.tv, James Shapiro, leaves, Makai Elías Calles, mating, natural selection, neurons, neurotransmitters, octopus, plant consciousness, plants, self-awareness, stripping fruit trees, Thomas Nagel, University of Chicago}

Evolutionary Lens Deterred Scientists from Considering Plant Cognition

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2026

Biology, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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It’s a familiar concept: the long, slow march from mud to mind meant that only toward the upper tier would we find such developments as cognition. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
March 14, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, animal behavior, brain, Caenorhabditis elegans, Darwinian evolution, directed evolution, dopamine, egg laying, evolution, fasting, information, intelligent design, Journal of Neurochemistry, learning, memory, motor neurons, movement, Nature (journal), nematode, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, serotonin, synapses}

“Directed Evolution”: The Tiniest Brain Is Not Simple

_{Eric Cassell
March 14, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Even a cursory examination of the connectome shows the complexity of the brain, despite its tiny size. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, Closer to Truth, dementia, Georges Lemaître, hearing, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, neurotransmitters, paradoxical lucidity, physicalism, Psychology Today, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, soul, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, vision}

Can We Define the Soul Out of Existence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 1, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues that the soul could not really amount to much without a physical brain. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Hedin

Date
December 12, 2023

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, amygdala, birds, brain, brainstem, dopamine, dreaming, Flight, hippocampus, Howard Glicksman, humans, insects, intelligent design, Irreducible Complexity, mammals, mice, neurotransmitters, reptiles, sleep, speed, Steve Laufmann, strength, thalamus, unconsciousness, wakefulness, Your Designed Body}

Sleep — Designed for Our Good

_{Eric Hedin
December 12, 2023

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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The evolutionary mindset operates as a major obstacle to the scientific understanding of sleep. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 23, 2023

Categories
Bioethics
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, anthropology, atheism, atoms, baboons, Big Bang, cognitive dissonance, determinism, facts, free will, Hamas, Jerry Coyne, Kenya, libertarian free will, Moral Law, murder, nature, neurotransmitters, Robert Sapolsky, soul, Stanford University, tornado, war, Why Evolution Is True}

Evolutionist Jerry Coyne Has a Puzzling View on Hamas

_{Michael Egnor
October 23, 2023

Bioethics, Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science

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The moral atrocity committed by Hamas seems not to have diminished Professor Coyne’s passion for atheism, determinism, and free will denial. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
October 19, 2023

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Evolution
Philosophy
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, atheism, benevolence, Charles Darwin, creation myth, Darwinism, determinism, eugenics, evil, Gaza, genes, genocide, good, Hamas, Holocaust, human nature, humanity, Israel, Moral Law, morality, music, natural selection, neurotransmitters, rape, relativism, selfish genes, slaughter, sterilization, William Shakespeare}

From Hamas, a Moment of Clarity about Darwinism and More

_{Michael Egnor
October 19, 2023

Arts, Bioethics, Evolution, Philosophy

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The real test of a worldview is not merely what it explains, but what it makes us deny. Atheism makes us deny objective moral law. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 9, 2022

Categories
Biology
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, apes, brain, crows, cuttlefish, Dogs, dolphins, elephants, intelligence, MicroRNAs, nervous system, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, octopuses, Oregon, RNA, squid, vertebrates, whales}

MicroRNAs: A New Clue About Octopus Intelligence?

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 9, 2022

Biology, Neuroscience & Mind, Science

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While octopus brains are very different from vertebrate brains, they share with vertebrates, a huge number of microRNAs. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arthritis, depression, diseases, lifespan, mother, Nature (journal), neurotransmitters, seizures, sleep}

Placebos Demonstrate Power of the Human Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2022

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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When a disease affects the brain-body relationship, the placebo response can confound researchers. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
April 20, 2022

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Darwinian evolution, Edward Feser, England, intelligent design, natural selection, neurons, neuroscience, neurotransmitters, philosophers, stones, Wales}

Yes! There Is Evidence for the Intelligent Design of the Brain

_{Michael Egnor
April 20, 2022

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Imagine that you are on a train in England and you see a collection of stones on a hillside that says BRITISH RAILWAYS WELCOMES YOU TO WALES. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
January 17, 2019

Categories
Bioethics
Tagged
, __cedited, animals, choice, crime, evil, free will, genes, good, human dignity, Jerry Coyne, justice, morality, neurotransmitters, punishment, totalitarianism}

Jerry Coyne and the Consequences of Denying Free Will

_{Michael Egnor
January 17, 2019

Bioethics

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Without free will, there is no guilt and there is no innocence. There are merely animals to be managed. Read More ›