varun-gaba-TYVDhM6guHA-unsplash 2 Type post Author Michael Egnor Date April 24, 2025 CategoriesBioethicsMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , Adrian Owen, awareness, brain, brain activity, brain blood flow, brain death, brain injury, dualism, evidence, failed predictions, fMRI, functional MRI, mannerisms, materialism, mental states, mind, persistent vegetative state, predictions, Science (journal), speech, tennis, vegetative state, walking Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions Michael Egnor April 24, 2025 Bioethics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death. Read More ›
near-death experience Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date September 19, 2023 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , brain, consciousness, cosmic fine-tuning, CPR, Dartmouth College, Durham University, Elsevier, hospitals, Marcelo Gleiser, near-death experiences, NYU, persistent vegetative state, Philip Goff, Rachel Nuwer, researchers, Sam Parnia, Scientific American, wrongthink Study: Brain Is Still Active After Death Denyse O’Leary September 19, 2023 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 Obviously, these experiences point to something that is irrelevant to claims about evolution. Read More ›
on-off-buttons Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date February 1, 2021 CategoriesNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , amnesia, brain function, comatose, consciousness, Discovery Institute, dreams, drugs, ether, injury, machines, mechanical philosophy, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, persistent vegetative state, phlogiston, sleep, unconsciousness, Walter Bradley Center Seven Reasons the Soul Can’t Be Turned “Off” David Klinghoffer February 1, 2021 Neuroscience & Mind 4 Neuroscientist Michael Egnor notes that the idea of consciousness is "empty," much like the idea of "natural selection" in evolution. Read More ›
