Tag: physicalism

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 10, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Amanda Gefter, analytic idealists, Bernardo Kastrup, consciousness, database, dissociation, eliminative materialism, idealism, Joshua Farris, Michael Egnor, near-death experiences, physicalism, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, supernatural}

One Reason Near-Death Experiences Are Hard to Study

_{Denyse O’Leary
October 10, 2025

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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When the mind is dissociated from the body briefly, it may acquire actual knowledge — as in NDEs where the knowledge acquired is later confirmed. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy of Science
Tagged
, Annaka Harris, consciousness, contradictions, dualism, eliminative materialism, Giulio Tononi, hardware, Hedda Hassel Mørch, illusion, immaterial world, Integrated information theory, materialism, matter, Nautilus, panpsychism, particles, physicalism, software, University of Inland Norway}

Weighing Whether Matter Itself Is Conscious

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy of Science

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To say that consciousness is real is to say that the immaterial world is, in principle, real. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
June 6, 2025

Categories
Evolution
Genetics
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, algorithms, Brian Miller, cognition, David Klinghoffer, decision-making, DNA, embryos, genes, Harvard University, ID the Future, immaterial genome, information, intelligent design, life, Michael Levin, nucleotide alteration, physicalism, physicists, Plato's Revenge, Platonic forms, podcast, purpose, René Thom, Richard Sternberg, scientific revolution, software, splicing, teleonomy, Tufts University}

Physicist Brian Miller: The Non-Algorithmic Nature of Life

_{Andrew McDiarmid
June 6, 2025

Evolution, Genetics, Intelligent Design

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Immaterial? As in not material? It’s a daring proposition, to be sure, and one that has the power to change everything we understand about life. Read More ›

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Author
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
April 22, 2025

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Metaphysics
Tagged
, Antony Flew, central dogma, Chance & Necessity, Charles Darwin, Colin Pittendrigh, Daniel Witt, Design Inference, Erwin Schrödinger, Eugene Wigner, Francis Crick, God Hypothesis, intention, Irreducible Complexity, Isaac Newton, Jaques Monod, Life Itself, materialism, Michael Levin, molecular biology, natural law, physicalism, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Plato, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Robert Rosen, Sahotra Sarkar, science of purpose, scientific atheism, scientism, specified complexity, telos, theologians, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Kuhn}

Life Itself: In Michael Levin’s Platonism, Teleology Advances

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
April 22, 2025

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Metaphysics

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This is a huge step by a leading contemporary academic scientist away from pure physicalism. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
February 28, 2025

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Mathematics
Metaphysics
Tagged
, a priori, abstract objects, Andreas Wagner, Daniel Dennett, David Deutsch, Discovery Institute, DNA, emergence, flatworms, frogs, Günter Bechly, Harvard University, material world, materialism, Max Tegmark, Mereology, Michael Levin, morphogenesis, mysticism, naturalism, philosophy of biology, physical world, physicalism, Platonism, Platonists, Richard Sternberg, Roger Penrose, secondary qualities, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, teleology, Tufts University, universals, University of Zurich, Werner Heisenberg}

Biologist Michael Levin: A Farewell to Physicalism

_{Daniel Witt
February 28, 2025

Biology, Engineering, Mathematics, Metaphysics

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Levin proposes a “radical Platonist view in which some of the causal input into mind and life originates outside the physical world.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 1, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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

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Berkeley cognitive linguist George Lakoff argues that the soul could not really amount to much without a physical brain. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 7, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Bruce Greyson, Closer to Truth, death, eliminationism, immortality, materialism, Michael Egnor, naturalism, physicalism, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, soul, The Immortal Mind}

Mind Is Not Annihilated at Death, ER Doc Says

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 7, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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“The evidence so far suggests that the entity we call the human mind… does not become annihilated after a person has died.” Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Addy Pross, chemists, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, decision-making, Gaia, Galen Strawson, Hard Problem, 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 ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 23, 2024

Categories
Biology
Botany
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Aeon, fungi, human beings, intelligence, neuroscience, panpsychism, physicalism, salad, William James}

Some Biologists Take “Plant Minds” Seriously

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 23, 2024

Biology, Botany, Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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What would surely puzzle other observers is the considerable current effort — at the same time — to portray human intelligence as some sort of illusion. Read More ›

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Author
Daniel Witt

Date
March 18, 2024

Categories
Biology
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Tagged
, biologists, C.S. Lewis, Foresight (book), Gandalf, intelligent design, Marcos Eberlin, materialism, Michael Behe, National Institutes of Health, physicalism, Reductionism, star, sun, systems biologists, Systems Biology, The Lord of the Rings, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader}

Understanding “Reductionism” and Intelligent Design

_{Daniel Witt
March 18, 2024

Biology, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences

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The word “reductionism” is thrown around a lot, but it can mean several different things. Read More ›