Tag: thoughts

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
August 17, 2026

Categories
Life Sciences
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, Allen Institute for Brain Science, Behind and Beyond the Brain Symposium, brains, Christof Koch, Closer to Truth, cognition, David Chalmers, emotions, filter model, hard problem of consciousness, Human Immortality (book), Integrated information theory, J. L. Saver, J. Rabin, materialism, mental awareness, mind, near-death experiences, neuroscience, neuroscientists, paradoxical lucidity, Peter Kreeft, reality, receptors, reducing valve, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Science Daily, sensations, senses, terminal lucidity, thoughts, universe, William James}

What if the Brain Is a Filter?

_{Denyse O’Leary
August 17, 2026

Life Sciences, Neuroscience & Mind

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The idea would provides insight into one of the most significant characteristics of near-death experiences, the extraordinary lucidity that experiencers report. Read More ›

Low Angle Shot in the Operating Room, Assistant Hands out Instruments to Surgeons During Operation. Surgeons Perform Operation. Professional Medical Doctors Performing Surgery.

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Author
John Zmirak

Date
September 2, 2025

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, atheism, brain, brain surgery, brain tumor, Christianity, concepts, Denyse O’Leary, hemispheres, left frontal lobe, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, mind, MIT, morality, music, near-death experiences, Netherlands, neuroscience, neurosurgeons, Nobel Prize, painting, reason, Roger Sperry, seizures, soul, split-brain surgery, surgery, The Immortal Mind, thoughts, violin, Wilder Penfield, Yair Pinto}

Conversation with Dr. Egnor: Abstract Thought Comes from the Mind, Not the Brain

_{John Zmirak
September 2, 2025

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind

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We can cut perceptional abilities with a knife, but we can’t cut reason and abstract thought. Read More ›

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Date
July 4, 2024

Categories
Intelligent Design
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, brain, Carly Cassella, emotions, feelings, human brain, neurons, neuroscience, Northwestern University, phase transition, ScienceAlert, thoughts, universe, water}

Research: Our Brains Float Between Two Phases, Dodging Disorder

_{Science & Culture
July 4, 2024

Intelligent Design, Neuroscience & Mind

4}

The good news, according to recent research, is that unsteadiness is the normal state of the human brain. 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

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
Angus Menuge

Date
October 2, 2023

Categories
Faith & Science
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
Tagged
, Discovery Institute Press, dualism, experience, Higgs Boson, mental states, mind, Minding the Brain, Nobel Prize, observation, Richard Swinburne, thoughts}

Physicalism Versus the Practice of Science

_{Angus Menuge
October 2, 2023

Faith & Science, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

3}

The idea that science has somehow shown the irrelevance of the mind to explaining behavior is seriously confused. Read More ›

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Author
Denyse O’Leary

Date
July 6, 2022

Categories
Biology
Evolution
Intelligent Design
Linguistics
Tagged
, feet, fingers, function, intelligent design, molecular biologists, philosophers, physicalism, teeth, terminology, thoughts}

Can We Eliminate the Idea of Function from Biology? A Philosopher and a Biologist Want to Try

_{Denyse O’Leary
July 6, 2022

Biology, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Linguistics

3}

They propose the term “biological role” instead. Thus, presumably, “the function of teeth is chewing” becomes “the biological role of teeth is chewing.” 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 & 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
Michael Egnor

Date
August 13, 2018

Categories
Botany
Faith & Science
Metaphysics
Tagged
, __cedited, __image, animals, Aquinas.design, Aristotelianism, body, compounds, computers, elements, Father Michael Chaberek, humans, intelligent design, man, oceans, soul, substance, Thomas Aquinas, Thomism, thoughts}

New Website Aquinas.Design Provides Insight into Nature and the Mind

_{Michael Egnor
August 13, 2018

Botany, Faith & Science, Metaphysics

4}

Father Michael Chaberek helped me (a passionate but amateur Thomist!) understand an issue that perplexed me for years. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 20, 2016

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, __tedited, conscious experience, Jerry Coyne, meaning, thoughts}

Atheist Philosopher Thinks “We Never Have Direct Access To Our Thoughts”

_{Michael Egnor
July 20, 2016

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

4}

Materialist theories of the mind border on the insane. Read More ›