image Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 13, 2025 CategoriesArtsIntelligent DesignNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , animals, brain, brain activity, Bridget Queenan, Christof Koch, consciousness, human exceptionalism, immaterial reality, language, materialism, Michael Egnor, Michael Gazzaniga, mind, music, rats, Roger Sperry, signal systems, soul, spirit, split-brain patients, volume Missing Brains and the “Music Model” of Consciousness Denyse O’Leary August 13, 2025 Arts, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind 7 Gazzaniga and Queenan’s new model accounts for missing brain parts but it leaves out the very thing that creates the music. Read More ›
Candlewithholder Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date August 12, 2025 CategoriesFaith & ScienceIntelligent DesignPhilosophy of Science Tagged , Carl Sagan, common sense, consciousness, demons, Divine Foot, eliminative materialism, immaterial reality, material world, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Richard C. Lewontin, split-brain patients, superstition, The Demon-Haunted World, The Immortal Mind, The New York Review of Books, universe Taking the Side of Science — But Which Side? Denyse O’Leary August 12, 2025 Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Philosophy of Science 5 In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism. Read More ›
joshua-fuller-ZWZDQVpmfIY-unsplash Type post Author Denyse O’Leary Date April 8, 2025 CategoriesAnatomyMedicineNeuroscience & Mind Tagged , alien hand syndrome, antiseizure medications, biotechnology, brain, Broca’s area, consciousness, corpus callosotomy, corpus callosum, Gonzalo Munevar, Hannah Thomasy, hemispheres, language, Lawrence Technical University, Michael Egnor, neuroscientists, Nobel Prize, Roger Sperry, sci-fi, Severance (sci-fi series), split-brain patients, split-brain syndrome, The Immortal Mind, The Scientist One Brain, Two Consciousnesses? Denyse O’Leary April 8, 2025 Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind 6 The idea that split-brain surgery can create two separate minds is immortal — in science fiction. Read More ›
