Tag: thinking

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Author
Kirk Durston

Date
November 25, 2025

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Physics
Tagged
, aneurysm, axioms, beliefs, blood, body, brain, brain hemispheres, C. S. Lewis, compatible free will, decision, emergence, falsification, free will, heart, illusion, immaterial mind, laws, laws of nature, libertarian free will, mathematics, Michael Egnor, mind, neurosurgery, physics, Sabine Hossenfelder, scientific method, scientific naturalism, scientists, surgery, thinking, truths}

A Close Look at Free Will: What Should Our Default Position Be?

_{Kirk Durston
November 25, 2025

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind, Physics

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The hypothesis that we have an immaterial mind capable of making free, meaningful decisions, continues to be verified. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 15, 2025

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, awareness, computers, decay, decisions, fungi, fungus colony, humans, intelligence, Japan, learning, machine cognition, machines, memory, metacognition, Michelle Starr, nature rights, neuroscience, panpsychism, Phanerochaete velutina, rescue dogs, Science Alert, slime molds, thinking, Tohoku University, transhumanism, Yu Fukasawa}

Intelligence Without a Brain? The Case of Fungi

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 15, 2025

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

We confuse the issue if we imply that the intelligence displayed by fungi is equivalent to that displayed by the humans who research them. Read More ›

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Author
Andrew McDiarmid

Date
April 4, 2025

Categories
Bioethics
Botany
Environment & Climate
Faith & Science
Tagged
, American South, autobiography, barometers, Bible, California, clocks, daydreaming, health, inflammation, James Hutchings, Jeanne Carr, John Muir, Journal of Experimental Psychology, lamplighters, Madison, motivation, national parks, naturalists, nature, nostalgia, pain, physiology, sawmills, Sierra Nevada, stream of consciousness, The Story of My Boyhood and Youth, thinking, wilderness, Wisconsin State Fair, Yosemite Valley}

Why John Muir Chose Nature Over Machines

_{Andrew McDiarmid
April 4, 2025

Bioethics, Botany, Environment & Climate, Faith & Science

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The famous naturalist put human inventions aside to reap the benefits of nature. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
December 14, 2024

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, brain imaging, coordination, fMRI, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroanatomy, neurophysiology, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, textbooks, The Immortal Mind, thinking, tumors}

Brain Imaging Shows Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain

_{Denyse O’Leary
December 14, 2024

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at once. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 31, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Addy Pross, chemists, cognition, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, decision-making, Gaia, Galen Strawson, Hard Problem, human consciousness, materialism, memory, panpsychism, philosophers, physicalism, Robert Wright, thinking}

Can a Chemical Preparation Display Cognition? This Chemist Says Yes

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 31, 2024

Evolution, Neuroscience & Mind

5}

Addy Pross, associated with the evolutionary "Third Way" community, states his guiding principles up front. Read More ›

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Date
March 17, 2024

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

Consciousness Observes Different Laws from Physics

_{Science and Culture
March 17, 2024

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Physical Sciences, Physics

3}

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

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Author
Wesley J. Smith

Date
November 8, 2022

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Medicine
Tagged
, brain activity, consciousness, CPR, death, evolution, faith, Grossman School of Medicine, heart, life after death, materialism, natural selection, near-death experiences, neonatal intensive care, New York University, perception, physicians, Sam Parnia, theology, thinking}

Does a New Scientific Study Offer Evidence of Life after Death?

_{Wesley J. Smith
November 8, 2022

Evolution, Faith & Science, Medicine

4}

Maybe there is no evolutionary explanation. There is certainly no discernible natural-selection benefit. Read More ›

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Date
September 2, 2022

Categories
Linguistics
Neuroscience & Mind
Science
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, asymmetry, brain size, brains, chimpanzees, dopamine, FOXP2, humans, intelligence, macaque, memory, nerve fibers, Peter Hess, primates, speech, thinking, Yale University}

More Ways that Human and Ape Brains Differ

_{Science and Culture
September 2, 2022

Linguistics, Neuroscience & Mind, Science, Scientific Reasoning

3}

Underlying the significant differences in brain — to say nothing of the vast difference in mind — is a genetic mystery. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
March 12, 2022

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, atheism, Christianity, evolutionary biologists, existence, fact, faith, Faith vs. Fact, Jerry Coyne, knowledge, law of non-contradiction, logic, René Descartes, skepticism, theists, thinking, Thomas Aquinas, truth}

Faith in God Is the Only Coherent Basis for Reason

_{Michael Egnor
March 12, 2022

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

3}

Atheists commonly assert that there is a profound dichotomy between faith and reason. Read More ›

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Date
January 14, 2020

Categories
Human Origins and Anthropology
Tagged
, __edited, Andrew McDiarmid, Are We Here to Recreate Ourselves?, complexity, consciousness, evolution, Geoffrey Simmons, humans, ID the Future, intelligent design, life, podcast, robots, thinking, unguided evolution}

Can Evolution Create Mind? Can We?

_{Science and Culture
January 14, 2020

Human Origins and Anthropology

1}

The arrival of humans on the scene of life is impossible to explain through unguided evolution alone, says Dr. Geoffrey Simmons. Read More ›