Tag: Patricia Churchland

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post

Date
August 1, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adam Jacobs, brain, cerebral cortex, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, eliminative materialism, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, mathematics, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Patricia Churchland, precentral gyrus, Stony Brook University, The Immortal Mind}

Where in the Brain Does the Mind Reside?

_{Science and Culture
August 1, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A rabbi asks neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how consciousness can exist without a place in the brain. Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 30, 2024

Categories
Botany
Evolution
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, bacteria, cognition, consciousness, Edward Feser, eliminative materialism, evolution, folk psychology, glaciers, human consciousness, intelligence, Massimo Pigliucci, materialists, Monica Gagliano, Pandora’s box, Patricia Churchland, thought}

Plant Consciousness and the Darwinian Project

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 30, 2024

Botany, Evolution, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

5}

The forces Darwinism unleashed were surely bound to head in this direction. It was only a matter of time. Read More ›

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post

Author
Casey Luskin

Date
August 5, 2021

Categories
Faith & Science
Human Exceptionalism
Linguistics
Tagged
, Alvin Plantinga, apes, Charles Darwin, chimpanzees, Declaration of Independence, gorilla, human origins, humans, intelligent design, J.B.S. Haldane, John Keats, Judeo-Christian tradition, Justin Brierley, materialism, Miracles (book), neo-Darwinian theory, Noam Chomsky, Patricia Churchland, religion, Sapiens (book), Sapiens review, Unbelievable, William Graham, Yuval Noah Harari}

Reviewing Sapiens — Back to the Guy Who Lost His Faith Over Harari

_{Casey Luskin
August 5, 2021

Faith & Science, Human Exceptionalism, Linguistics

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Podcaster Sam Davis told Justin Brierley that what did it for him was reading Yuval Noah Harari’s idea that “humanity is a weaver of stories.” Read More ›

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post

Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 28, 2017

Categories
Cosmology
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, Daniel Dennett, Donald Hoffman, evidence, Francis Crick, Giulio Tonioni, Hedda Hassel Mørch, John Searle, Max Tegmark, mind, neuroscience, panpsychism, Patricia Churchland, post-modern, Roger Penrose, science, Sean Carroll, Steven Novella}

Post-Modern Science: The Illusion of Consciousness Sees Through Itself

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 28, 2017

Cosmology, Neuroscience & Mind

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“It’s quite plausible” is treated as equivalent to evidence, eliding the question of how exactly we come to “consciously believe” anything. Read More ›