soul Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 3, 2025 CategoriesFaith & ScienceMetaphysicsNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , atheism, brain, Cities of the Absurd, Kenneth Francis, Mario Beauregard, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, narrative, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, New English Review, paradoxical lucidity, Piers Morgan Uncensored, Richard Dawkins, short stories, skepticism, soul, split brain, The Immortal Mind From Science, New Respect for Non-Materialist Understandings of the Mind Denyse O’Leary August 3, 2025 Faith & Science, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind 5 Yes, there are still people who insist that science can only consider material causes and concepts. Read More ›
sunset Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 11, 2025 CategoriesFaith & ScienceMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , abstract thought, Angela Lo, brain, dementia, dying, immaterial powers, justice, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, moral choice, music, paradoxical lucidity, perception, reason, rementia, Stephen Post, Stony Brook University, Supreme Court, The Immortal Mind, veterans Dementia Hints That the Brain Is Not All There Is to the Mind Denyse O’Leary July 11, 2025 Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception, and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason. Read More ›
Near-Death-Experience_Illustration Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date December 1, 2024 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & MindPhilosophy 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 7 Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues that the soul could not really amount to much without a physical brain. Read More ›
memory 2 Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date July 31, 2023 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , brain, Canada, consciousness, dementia, euthanasia, memory, neurobiology, neuroscience, paradoxical lucidity, Stony Brook University Clues About Consciousness from Dementia Research Denyse O’Leary July 31, 2023 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 4 The phenomenon is called "paradoxical lucidity" because it is unexpected and we know very little about its causes. Read More ›
