La_salle_d'opération_du_Dr._Hingston_v2 Type post Author Michael Egnor Date February 20, 2025 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , brain, brain surgery, Cornell University, illusion, Justine Sergent, neuroscience, personality, Psyche, religions, scalpel, selfhood, soul, split-brain surgery, Yair Pinto Split-Brain Surgeries Reveal Reality of the Soul Michael Egnor February 20, 2025 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 4 This is not only the perennial teaching of the great religions, but the evidence of the best neuroscience. Read More ›
near-death experience Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date October 26, 2024 CategoriesFaith & ScienceNeuroscience & MindPhysics Tagged , brain function, cardiac arrest, clinical death, Closer to Truth, consciousness, death, doctors, Lord Kelvin, Lucid Dying, near-death experiences, Nobel Prize, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, skepticism, soul Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism Denyse O’Leary October 26, 2024 Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics 6 In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Read More ›
jc-gellidon-Ks5m44_nmVs-unsplash Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 7, 2024 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , brain, Bruce Greyson, Closer to Truth, death, 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 4 “The evidence so far suggests that the entity we call the human mind… does not become annihilated after a person has died.” Read More ›
free will Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date June 26, 2023 CategoriesMedicineNeuroscience & MindPsychology Tagged , Benjamin Libet, brain waves, Delusion, determinism, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Psyche, quantum mechanics, Stony Brook University, University of Missouri, volcano Free Will: What Are the Reasons to Believe in It? Denyse O’Leary June 26, 2023 Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology 6 Some say that free will might be a useful delusion but neuroscience provides sound reasons to believe that it is real. Read More ›
cat and mouse Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date January 6, 2023 CategoriesBioethicsHuman ExceptionalismNeuroscience & MindScience Tagged , animal rights, animals, bears, cannibalism, consciousness, crime, free will, humans, moral agency, morality, Nonhuman Rights Project, plaintiffs, Psyche, responsibility Can Animals Be Held Criminally Responsible? Denyse O’Leary January 6, 2023 Bioethics, Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Science 7 While the idea is handled provocatively in philosophy literature, in practice, animals are envisioned as plaintiffs, not defendants, in animal rights cases. Read More ›
anxiety Type post Author David Klinghoffer Date October 7, 2020 CategoriesEvolutionary PsychologyNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , anger, animals, anthropologists, anxiety, Darwinism, Denyse O'Leary, disease, evolution, evolutionary biologists, grief, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, narrative gloss, pain, Philip Skell, Psyche, The Scientist The Evolutionary Psychologist Will See You Now David Klinghoffer October 7, 2020 Evolutionary Psychology, Neuroscience & Mind 3 It needs no wisdom to stamp “ANIMAL” on the sufferer’s forehead, any more than it does to stamp “DISEASED.” Read More ›