Tag: Uncertainty Principle

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
June 9, 2025

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, brain processes, brain state, concepts, consciousness, Denyse O'Leary, immateriality, intellect, line, logic, materialism, matter, neuroscience, soul, The Immortal Mind, triangle, truth, Uncertainty Principle, universals, Werner Heisenberg}

How Can We Conceive of Perfection When We Never Experience It?

_{Michael Egnor
June 9, 2025

Neuroscience & Mind

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There are two ways we can think of a triangle. One way is to form a mental image, likely based on a triangle we have seen on a piece of paper. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
May 6, 2025

Categories
Anatomy
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Tagged
, abstract thought, Aristotle, blood pressure, brain function, brain state, breathing, Denyse O'Leary, Edward Feser, elementary particles, emotion, heart rate, hormones, intellect, logic, matter, measurements, memory, Michael Egnor, mind, movement, neuroscience, perception, photons, Plato, precision, puppy, soul, triangle, uncertainty, Uncertainty Principle, will}

The Logical Basis of the Immaterial Mind

_{Michael Egnor
May 6, 2025

Anatomy, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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The indeterminacy of matter precludes brain states from forming the basis of abstract thought. Simple logic points to this truth. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
March 13, 2024

Categories
Evolution
Faith & Science
Tagged
, Asia, atheism, Charles Lyell, Christianity, Daniel Dennett, Enlightenment, Erasmus Darwin, First Cause, fundamentalism, Garden of Eden, God Hypothesis, Higher Criticism, Lamarckian theory, Louis Agassiz, On the Origin of Species, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Pierre-Simon Laplace, Richard Dawkins, Richard Swinburne, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Uncertainty Principle, Victorian England, William James, William Lane Craig}

Shelley, Darwin, and the 19th-Century God Debate

_{Neil Thomas
March 13, 2024

Evolution, Faith & Science

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The poet Percy Bysshe Shelley threw down the gauntlet for what was effectively to become the great Victorian dispute about religious faith. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
January 5, 2024

Categories
Ethics
Evolution
Faith & Science
History of Science
Intelligent Design
Tagged
, Adam and Eve, agency, atheism, Charles Bradlaugh, Cicero, deduction, Enlightenment, evolution, fact, Garden of Eden, induction, intellectual history, intelligent design, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Gribbin, Julian Huxley, metaphysics, Nancy Pearcey, natural selection, Old Testament, On the Origin of Species, Paul Davies, progress, Richard Dawkins, Roman Catholic, teleology, theology, Thomas Huxley, Tom Wolfe, Uncertainty Principle, vera causa, Victorian England, watchmaker, Werner Heisenberg, William Blake}

Darwinism as Fact? The Waning of an Historical Myth

_{Neil Thomas
January 5, 2024

Ethics, Evolution, Faith & Science, History of Science, Intelligent Design

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Historically the unfathomable subtleties of our terrestrial environment have been viewed as in and of themselves empirical markers for design. Read More ›

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Author
Neil Thomas

Date
December 10, 2021

Categories
Cosmology
Faith & Science
Intelligent Design
Physical Sciences
Tagged
, Albert Einstein, Anthony Flew, Arthur Eddington, atheism, Carlo Rovelli, Christian de Duve, Eric Metaxas, Goldilocks Zone, intelligent design, Max Planck, Niels Bohr, Nobel laureates, quantum physics, The Return to the God Paradigm (series), theism, Uncertainty Principle, Werner Heisenberg}

The Tip of a Larger Iceberg

_{Neil Thomas
December 10, 2021

Cosmology, Faith & Science, Intelligent Design, Physical Sciences

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Our profound ignorance of what Lucretius termed the nature of things has been revealed by the work of Planck, Einstein, Bohr, and Heisenberg. Read More ›