mind Type post Author Andrew McDiarmid Date June 17, 2025 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , brain, clinical death, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, ID the Future, journalists, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, prefrontal cortex, promissory materialism, The Immortal Mind Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind Andrew McDiarmid June 17, 2025 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 3 Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? I spoke with Denyse O’Leary about surprising findings out of neuroscience. Read More ›
ashley-batz-betmVWGYcLY-unsplash Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date May 2, 2025 CategoriesAnatomyIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , cognition, consciousness, decisions, Denyse O'Leary, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, Michael Egnor, Nautilus, neuroscience, neuroscientists, prefrontal cortex, pseudoscience, Science Daily, The Immortal Mind, The New England Journal of Medicine, University of Sussex Study Probes the Origins of Consciousness Denyse O’Leary May 2, 2025 Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 5 Understanding consciousness by these means is going to be a much slower process than the researchers had hoped. Read More ›
013_Alpha_male_chimpanzee_at_Kibale_forest_National_Park_Photo_by_Giles_Laurent Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date April 2, 2025 CategoriesEvolutionNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , 1 percent myth, brains, chimpanzees, decision-making, DNA, human brains, humans, language, neurons, neuroscientists, Oxford University, personality, planning, prefrontal cortex, sound, thought Research: Human Brains Differ from Chimps’ Even More than Expected Denyse O’Leary April 2, 2025 Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind 3 It’s surprising how many people offer the common throwaway line, “We share 98.8 percent of our DNA with chimps!” Read More ›