Tag: seizures

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Author
Tova Levengood

Date
July 1, 2026

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Tagged
, anatomy, atheism, Center for Science and Culture, Christianity, Christopher Hitchens, church, consensus science, Discovery Institute Press, Discovery Society, evolution, faith and science, flexor tendon, ID the Future, information theory, intelligent design, medical school, neurosurgeons, novels, podcasts, professionals, professors, Science and Culture Today, seizures, Shelby Bailey, Signature in the Cell, Stephen Meyer, students, suicide, surgery, textbooks}

Designed for Destruction? A Surgeon’s Finger on the Trigger

_{Tova Levengood
July 1, 2026

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Medicine

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In this agonized season, Skiff read everything he could get his hands on, searching for meaning somewhere. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
February 2, 2026

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, brain, brain function, communication, consciousness, death, Denyse O’Leary, emotions, free will, human identity, ID the Future, materialism, medical literature, memories, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movements, near-death experiences, neuroscience, physicalism, reason, seizures, sensations, terminal lucidity, The Immortal Mind, Threshold}

Terminal Lucidity Points to Indestructible Personhood

_{Andrew McDiarmid
February 2, 2026

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why would the human mind sometimes appear strongest when the brain is weakest? We begin a two-part conversation discussing the phenomenon of terminal lucidity. Read More ›

Female robot face, Artificial intelligence concept. Generative AI

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Author
Casey Luskin

Date
November 21, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Technology
Tagged
, Bayesian reasoning, brain, brain mapping, COSM 2025, debates, emotions, free will, history of science, immaterial mind, intelligent design, logic, machines, mathematics, memories, Michael Egnor, Michael Shermer, mind, near-death experiences, psychology, seizures, sensations, soul, twins}

COSM Debate: “Are Human Beings Machines?”

_{Casey Luskin
November 21, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind, Technology

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The debate centered on the mind and brain and whether the mind is distinct from the brain or whether we’re nothing more than chemicals and firing neurons. Read More ›

Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 3, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, bone, brain, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, Denyse O'Leary, epilepsy, legs, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, seizures, skull, split-brain surgery, surgery}

New Book, The Immortal Mind, Out Today — The Brain Can Be Split, but Not the Mind

_{Michael Egnor and Denyse O’Leary
June 3, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Even when the brain is split in half, many important aspects of the mind remain unified. Thus, the mind is something that the brain isn’t. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
May 20, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Dallas Conference on Science and Faith, Denyse O'Leary, Discovery Science, immaterial genome, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Plato's Revenge, Richard Sternberg, Scripture, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, The Immortal Mind, YouTube videos}

Neuroscience Shows the Soul Is Real

_{David Klinghoffer
May 20, 2025

Intelligent Design, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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Why do such things send a shiver down one’s spine? I’m not quite sure why, but they do. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
April 11, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, brain, consciousness, doctors, epilepsy, free will, human mind, material cause, Michael Egnor, mind, Mother Teresa, neurosurgeons, seizures, unconsciousness}

From Seizures, a Healthy Respect for the Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
April 11, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

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Webb Wright’s roundup of historical approaches to epilepsy is not very insightful, unfortunately. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 16, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, behavior, brain, consciousness, epilepsy, human brain, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgeons, NOVA, Roger Sperry, seizures, split brain, Stony Brook University, The Immortal Mind, UC Santa Barbara, Yair Pinto}

Split-Brain Research Confirms Unity of the Human Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 16, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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The NOVA special’s claim is, “The split brain phenomenon suggests that there can be two separated minds, if you will, inside of a skull.” Read More ›

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Date
August 24, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, brain, Christof Koch, David Chalmers, epilepsy, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, music, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Pat Flynn, promissory materialism, seizures, Stony Brook University, Wilder Penfield}

What 1,000+ Brain Surgeries Taught About the Mind

_{Science & Culture
August 24, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thought. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
November 2, 2022

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, arthritis, depression, diseases, lifespan, mother, Nature (journal), neurotransmitters, seizures, sleep}

Placebos Demonstrate Power of the Human Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
November 2, 2022

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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When a disease affects the brain-body relationship, the placebo response can confound researchers. Read More ›