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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
Stephen J. Iacoboni

Date
November 7, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Metaphysics
Tagged
, algorithms, baby, David Klinghoffer, DNA, doctors, education, Evolution News, healing, health, mechanics, mechanism, medical school, medical science, medicine, patients, physicians, science, scientific atheism, soul, womb}

The Machine Model in Medicine

_{Stephen J. Iacoboni
November 7, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine, Metaphysics

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The unfortunate fact is, there really are those two conflicting sides in medicine. Read More ›

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Author
Peter Biles

Date
November 2, 2024

Categories
Arts
Bioethics
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, algorithms, books, cathedrals, ChatGPT, creativity, human beings, intelligence, large language models, materialism, music, nature, Oxford University, sentience, soul, The Lord of the Rings, theists, Turing test, War and Peace}

Putting AI to the “Tolkien Test”: Could It Pass?

_{Peter Biles
November 2, 2024

Arts, Bioethics, Neuroscience & Mind

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Could ChatGPT ever hope to get close to the creative depth found in Tolkien’s Middle-earth? Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
October 26, 2024

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
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

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In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
September 26, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, cancer, death, doctor, Geoffrey Simmons, healthcare, Howard Glicksman, intelligent design, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, oncologists, patients, Philip Nitschke, physicians, Sarco, soul, Stephen J. Iacoboni, Switzerland, William James}

Medicine’s “Sacred Space” — Grossly Violated

_{David Klinghoffer
September 26, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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When my dad was dying, I saw both sides of the healthcare world, one that fought to save a life and the other that was coldly indifferent, even eager to end it. Read More ›

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Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, human mind, human nature, materialism, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Pat Flynn, physical processes, soul, Stony Brook University, The Immortal Mind}

Materialism Is a Totalistic Claim — Here’s Why That Matters

_{Science & Culture
August 19, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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There are aspects of the mind that are not generated in the brain. That sounds like a modest claim. 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, 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
Guillermo Gonzalez

Date
April 11, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, clouds, corona, Dallas, Discovery Institute, gold, heart, light, mind, Moon, planets, poetry, sky, solar eclipse, soul, sun, totality, Waxahachie}

Solar Eclipse Right Brain Meanderings

_{Guillermo Gonzalez
April 11, 2024

Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Monday in Waxahachie started grey and misty. The forecast for the time of totality was still uncertain. Read More ›

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Date
March 17, 2024

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Physical Sciences
Physics
Tagged
, brain, causation, consciousness, feelings, logic, mind, right, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, sensations, soul, thinking, thoughts, wrong}

Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

_{Science & Culture
March 17, 2024

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

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Keith Ward explains how we can know that the mind is not simply what the brain does. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
February 3, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, anger, Christof Koch, Dogs, Edward Feser, emotions, fear, goats, Heaven, horses, livestock, mind, moral choice, philosophers, soul}

Researchers: Goats Can Read Basic Human Emotions

_{Denyse O’Leary
February 3, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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Readers may wonder at first whether this research was worth doing, but hang on. It turns out that goats can understand basic emotions by voice alone. Read More ›