Tag: Stony Brook University

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Date
August 1, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Adam Jacobs, brain, cerebral cortex, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, eliminative materialism, Global Workspace Theory, Integrated information theory, mathematics, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Patricia Churchland, precentral gyrus, Stony Brook University, The Immortal Mind}

Where in the Brain Does the Mind Reside?

_{Science and Culture
August 1, 2025

Anatomy, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

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A rabbi asks neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how consciousness can exist without a place in the brain. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 11, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Angela Lo, brain, dementia, dying, immaterial powers, justice, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, moral choice, music, paradoxical lucidity, perception, reason, rementia, Stephen Post, Stony Brook University, Supreme Court, The Immortal Mind, veterans}

Dementia Hints That the Brain Is Not All There Is to the Mind

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 11, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception, and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
June 27, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Fine-tuning
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Aaron Zimmer, Battle of the Big Bang, Big Bang, black hole, conundrums, designed universe, Elie Feder, mind, multiverse, Niayesh Afshordi, Paul Sutter, Phil Halper, physicists, physics, quantum particles, Second Law of Thermodynamics, Singularity, Stony Brook University, string theory, uncertainty, universe}

The Very “Nature of the Universe” Puzzles Physicists

_{Denyse O’Leary
June 27, 2025

Faith & Science, Fine-tuning, Intelligent Design

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The more physicists know about the universe, the larger loom some questions about ultimate realities. Read More ›

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post

Date
June 26, 2025

Categories
Faith & Science
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, atheists, birth canal, brain-stem aneurysm, carbon-dioxide spikes, Carl Sagan, Carol Zaleski, clinical death, Denyse O'Leary, endorphins, Gandalf, Howard Storm, hypoxia, jesus, ketamine, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, My Descent into Death, near-death experiences, neurosurgery, Pam Reynolds, podcast, psychedelic chemistry, Robert J. Marks II, Robert Spetzler, skull, Stony Brook University, temporal-lobe seizures, The Immortal Mind, The Lord of the Rings, veridical}

Near-Death Experiences Give Scientific Evidence of the Soul

_{Science and Culture
June 26, 2025

Faith & Science, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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As Dr. Egnor contends, near-death experiences offer modern, experiential evidence that the human mind is not confined to the skull. 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 and 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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Date
August 19, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain tissue, 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 and 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
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
August 9, 2024

Categories
Bioethics
Medicine
Tagged
, California State University Stanislaus, Canada, Center on Human Exceptionalism, culture of death, Darwinism, eugenics, euthanasia, From Darwin to Hitler, history, Hitler’s Ethic, Hitler’s Religion, Netherlands, Richard Weikart, Stony Brook University, Switzerland, The Death of Humanity, United States, Unnatural Death, Wesley J. Smith}

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

_{Andrew McDiarmid
August 9, 2024

Bioethics, Medicine

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"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Read More ›

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Author
Günter Bechly

Date
June 28, 2024

Categories
Cosmology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Paleontology
Tagged
, Big Bang, body plans, coordinated mutations, Fossil Friday (series), herpetology, lizards, population genetics, Singularity, snakes, Stony Brook University, unguided evolution, University of Michigan}

Fossil Friday: Snake Origins —Yet Another Biological Big Bang

_{Günter Bechly
June 28, 2024

Cosmology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Paleontology

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The authors commented in the press releases that this burst of biological novelty suggests that “snakes are like the Big Bang ‘singularity’ in cosmology.” Read More ›

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Date
August 3, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Center for Science and Culture, Darwin Day in America, faith and science, free will, John West, materialists, Michael Denton, Michael Egnor, mind, physiology, Redeeming Science, Sam Harris, sexuality, society, soul, Stony Brook University, The Miracle of Man, theology, Vern Poythress, Westminster Conference on Science and Faith, Westminster Theological Seminary}

Mind, Brain, Soul: What’s the Difference? Find Out at the 2023 Westminster Conference

_{Science and Culture
August 3, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind

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Sam Harris has said that “You can do what you decide to do — but you cannot decide what you will decide to do.” Read More ›