Tag: paralysis

Conceptual image of a large stone in the shape of the human brain

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
September 19, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, ALS, animals, apes, birds, bloodhounds, brain mapping, common sense, consciousness, Deepak Chopra, Doctor's Diary (series), dolphins, electrodes, elephants, evolution, functional MRI, Gordon Gallup Jr., inner conversation, inner speech, intelligent design, Jiminy Cricket, Lampwick, magpies, Michael Egnor, mirror test, motor cortex, octopuses, paralysis, radio show, red dot test, Rottweilers, self-talk, soul, speech, Stanford University, whales}

Doctor’s Diary: To Whom Are You Talking When You Talk to Yourself?

_{Geoffrey Simmons
September 19, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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A comment by a national radio show host recently caught my attention. “So, I said to myself, SELF! What would you do under these circumstances?” Read More ›

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Date
April 6, 2025

Categories
Engineering
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, anarthria, audible speech, brain, brain implant, brainstem stroke, California, cerebral cortex, communication, frustration, internal speech, isolation, paralysis, speech, stroke, Tibi Puiu, voice synthesizer, ZME Science}

Implant Lets a Disabled Woman Speak Her Thoughts

_{Science and Culture
April 6, 2025

Engineering, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The key benefit of the system is that it is much faster than traditional methods, cutting the time from internal speech to audible speech to three seconds. Read More ›

Parables From Nature Getty Profile 1600x900px Graphic - 1

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 5, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, British Museum, Charles Darwin, Darwin's Black Box, Darwin’s Bluff, evolution, humans, intelligent design, marine biology, Michael Behe, natural selection, On the Origin of Species, paralysis, Patrick Matthew, ravens, Robert Brown, Robert Shedinger, Royal Society, Socrates, transmutation}

Parables from Nature: A Profile of Margaret Gatty

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 5, 2024

Evolution, Intelligent Design

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Although she refrained from challenging Darwin publicly, Margaret had strong thoughts of opposition to Darwin’s proposals. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 11, 2021

Categories
Bioethics
Metaphysics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, body, brain, Frankenstein, humans, medicine, monkeys, muscles, nerves, neurosurgeon, paralysis, quadriplegia, Robert White, soul, spinal cord, trachea, Wired}

Are Head Transplants Soul Transplants?

_{Michael Egnor
March 11, 2021

Bioethics, Metaphysics, Neuroscience & Mind

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The question of the disposition of the soul depends on what we mean by “soul.” Is the soul a thing somewhere in the brain, so to speak, or in the body? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
August 10, 2020

Categories
Evolution
Tagged
, Adolf Hitler, atomization, Chicago, civilization, Cliff Mass, Communism, Darwinian evolution, Dawinism, democracy, Edward Feser, freedom, Friedrich Engels, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, Kristallnacht, lockdown, Ludwig Feuerbach, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, Nazism, npr, paralysis, Plato, Portland, terror, tyranny}

Darwinism Paved the Way to Our Perilous Cultural Moment

_{David Klinghoffer
August 10, 2020

Evolution

5}

The year so far has delivered a stunning lesson in the fragility of freedom and of civilization. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 20, 2020

Categories
Bioethics
Evolution
Tagged
, Aryan race, atomization, Bolsheviks, China, COVID-19, Dachau, Darwinism, evolution, Friedrich Engels, Germany, Hannah Arendt, Karl Marx, looting, Maoists, movement, natural law, natural selection, Nazis, pandemic, paralysis, rioting, Russia, terror, The Origins of Totalitarianism, totalitarianism, unpredictability, vandalism}

Totalitarianism Is Darwinism Applied to Politics

_{Michael Egnor
July 20, 2020

Bioethics, Evolution

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Atomization is the radical isolation of each individual from every other individual. Atomization breaks the bonds that hold society in its traditional shape. Read More ›

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Author
Geoffrey Simmons

Date
April 15, 2020

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, abscess, antibodies, bacteria, cancer, coronavirus, DNA, Doctor's Diary (series), fungus, H1N1, health, Immune System, immunization, intelligent design, lungs, lymphocytes, macrophages, measles, mumps, natural selection, neutrophils, pandemic, paralysis, polio, RNA, Swine Flu, tetanus, vaccination, viruses}

Doctor’s Diary: Our Remarkable Healing Processes and the Coronavirus Infection

_{Geoffrey Simmons
April 15, 2020

Intelligent Design, Medicine

6}

There are several ways to fight this pandemic besides social isolation, wearing masks, and proper hand-washing. Read More ›