Tag: self

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 17, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Annaka Harris, brains, Carlo Rovelli, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, eliminative materialism, Four Horsemen, idealism, illusion, Lee Smolin, materialists, mindfulness, New Atheists, octopus, panpsychism, quantum mechanics, Sam Harris, self, universe}

A Conscious Universe?

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 17, 2025

Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
January 19, 2023

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Tagged
, Benjamin Libet, brain, brain activity, Chapman University, choices, consciousness, free will, Marcelo Gleiser, neuroscience, readiness potential, Scientific American, self}

New Brain Research Supports Free Will

_{Denyse O’Leary
January 19, 2023

Neuroscience & Mind, Science

6}

Researchers, altering Libet’s classical experiment, found that human brains show no “readiness potential” when a decision is important. Read More ›

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Author
Eric Cassell

Date
January 18, 2023

Categories
Biology
Engineering
Intelligent Design
Life Sciences
Science
Tagged
, algorithms, Animal Algorithms, bats, behavior, fish, hippocampus, homeostasis, information, intelligent design, mammals, navigation, Neural Networks, neurons, place cells, Research, self, zebrafish}

Intelligent Design in Animal Self-Location and Navigation

_{Eric Cassell
January 18, 2023

Biology, Engineering, Intelligent Design, Life Sciences, Science

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A question is whether such mechanisms exist in more ancient brain regions of other animals. A new study has identified a self-location mechanism in zebrafish. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
September 8, 2022

Categories
Human Exceptionalism
Neuroscience & Mind
Origin of Life
Philosophy
Science
Tagged
, apes, chimpanzees, Closer to Truth, genomes, illusion, Julian Baggini, lichens, neurons, neuroscience, qualia, redness, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, rocks, scientific explanation, self}

Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?

_{Denyse O’Leary
September 8, 2022

Human Exceptionalism, Neuroscience & Mind, Origin of Life, Philosophy, Science

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Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”? Read More ›

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post

Date
June 13, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, artificial intelligence, Bobby Azarian, brain, Carnegie Mellon University, consciousness, feedback loops, information, machines, materialism, mind, neurons, neuroscientists, Santa Fe Institute, self, self-organization theory, self-reference, split brain}

Can Self-Organization Theory Account for Consciousness?

_{Science and Culture
June 13, 2022

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

3}

One difficulty is that many humans produce a “self” with split brains, a brain missing key components, or half a brain. That’s not consistent with materialism. Read More ›

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Date
October 18, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __edited, behavior, brain, Darwinism, decisions, dualism, information, intelligent design, intuition, just-so stories, memory, mind, planning, Scientific Reports, self, Star Trek, stimuli, thoughts}

Remember This: Memory Requires Intelligent Design

_{Science and Culture
October 18, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

10}

The brain assists the organization and recall of thoughts by segmenting them and associating them with stimuli. But who is doing the thinking? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 28, 2019

Categories
Physics
Scientific Freedom
Tagged
, __edited, apes, Ball State University, Bijan Nemati, Darwinian theory, David Lloyd, evolution, fear, Frank Tipler, freedom from religion foundation, Guy Fawkes, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Lawrence Krauss, mask, materialism, Michael Egnor, robots, Sam Harris, Science Uprising, scientists, self, Stony Brook University, University of Chicago, V for Vendetta}

What’s Up with the Science Uprising Mask?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 28, 2019

Physics, Scientific Freedom

4}

Scanning down through the comments section under his post, I noticed a puzzled remark from one reader. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 5, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, __k-review, books, brain, chemical reactions, chemicals, college, Daniel Dennett, Darwinism, Jay Richards, materialism, Sam Harris, Science Uprising, self}

Jay Richards: The Many Dilemmas of Materialism

_{David Klinghoffer
June 5, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

3}

When you go off to an elite college today, you’re expected to think about the most important questions as if it were true that only material things exist. Read More ›

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post

Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 4, 2019

Categories
Medicine
Tagged
, __k-review, brain, Denyse O'Leary, health, illusion, information, insomnia, Internet, Jay Richards, materialism, medicine, mind, narrator, patients, placebo, science, Science Uprising, scientism, self, Stanford University, Wall Street Journal}

Health-Tracking Apps Unmask a Materialist Myth

_{David Klinghoffer
June 4, 2019

Medicine

4}

“To a materialist our subjective thoughts are not real. But our thoughts and beliefs have real consequences.” Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 3, 2016

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Neuroscience & Mind
Psychology
Tagged
, __tedited, abstract thinking, choices, determinism, fallacy, free will, human mind, human responsibilities, illusions, mind-brain debate, natural causes, people, self}

Is Free Will Just "Your Brain Tricking Itself"?

_{Michael Egnor
May 3, 2016

Human Origins and Anthropology, Neuroscience & Mind, Psychology

5}

When scientists propose a really inane explanation for a mundane observation, evolutionary psychology is likely the discipline invoked. Read More ›