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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Annaka Harris, brains, Carlo Rovelli, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminative materialism, Four Horsemen, idealism, illusion, Lee Smolin, materialists, New Atheists, octopus, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Sam Harris, self, universe}

A Conscious Universe?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail. Read More ›

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Date
May 30, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, brain, Christof Koch, consciousness, David Chalmers, Giulio Tononi, humanity, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, Mind Matters, panpsychism, TED talks, The Immortal Mind, Wilder Penfield}

Egnor: The Central Mystery of Our Humanity Is Human Consciousness

_{Science & Culture
May 30, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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The fate of the discipline of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 5, 2024

Categories
Evolutionary Psychology
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thinking, anthropology, Aristotle, behavior, Big Think, consciousness, evolution, human mind, human origins, neuroscientists, panpsychism, Roger Penrose, Stone Age}

Getting Stoned: Did It Shape Human Origins?

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 5, 2024

Evolutionary Psychology, Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind

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For a really wild excursion, nothing beats efforts to explain the evolution of the human mind. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 6, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Linguistics
Tagged
, cells, Daniel Dennett, DNA, natural selection, panpsychism, RNA, thymine, uracil, warfare, William A. Dembski}

RNA as Cells’ “Text Messaging” System

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 6, 2024

Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Linguistics

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Some researchers wonder if RNA can be understood as a common language that can be read among cells of widely different life forms. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 2, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Psychology
Tagged
, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Energy, Galen Strawson, illusion, matter, natural selection, neuroscience, panpsychism, random mutation, snakes, universe}

Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 2, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics, Psychology

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It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 25, 2024

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Charles Darwin, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian theory, evolution, genomes, James Shapiro, living cells, meaning, natural selection, panpsychism, Philip Ball, Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology, purpose, random mutation, tautology}

Now, Here’s a Theory of Evolution Based on Cellular “Thinking”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 25, 2024

Biology, Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Note how far we are from the world of Darwin’s followers now, while still staying with the evidence. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 23, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, bacteria, biologists, Charles Darwin, diversification, emergence, Forensics, Gandalf, Harry Potter, intelligence, intelligent design, J.R.R. Tolkien, Mendelian genetics, Michael Behe, microscopes, Mount Doom, Neo-Darwinism, panpsychism, random variation, Return of the God Hypothesis, scientists, self-organization, Stephen Meyer, teleonomy, universe}

Will Evolution’s New Synthesis Be Hard or Soft Magic?

_{Daniel Witt
August 23, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Let's try holding some new scientific theories to the standards of the fantasy genre. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, C.S. Lewis, Christopher Hitchens, Daniel Dennett, David Klinghoffer, Denis Noble, Douglas Axe, Jerry Coyne, materialism, Neo-Darwinism, New Atheists, Normal Science, panpsychism, paradigm shift, post-truth, Professor Dave, PZ Myers, Royal Society, Sam Harris, scientism, spiritualism, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Meyer, Third Way of Evolution, vitalism, Zeitgeist}

Is This a Paradigm Shift?

_{Daniel Witt
August 7, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science

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Something is changing. Here are more thoughts on the “tipping point” in dissent from neo-Darwinism. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 2, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, cognition, consciousness, ecocide, Ecuador, genocide, human rights, Iceland, nature rights, panpsychism, personhood, Russia, Vladimir Putin, Wesley J. Smith}

Rocks’ Lives Matter: The Political Face of “Everything Is Conscious”

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 2, 2024

Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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When it comes to rights, just being human is becoming much less of an advantage. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, chemists, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, decision-making, Gaia, Galen Strawson, human consciousness, materialism, memory, panpsychism, philosophers, physicalism, Robert Wright, thinking}

Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

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Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›