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Michael Egnor

Date
December 17, 2024

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Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, Aristotle, augustine, blood, brains, carbon dioxide, Denyse O'Leary, emotions, free will, heart, intellect, kidneys, memories, muscles, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, oxygen, pain, Plato, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Aquinas, urine, Wilder Penfield}

What Does Your Brain Do? And What Can It Not Do?

_{Michael Egnor
December 17, 2024

Mathematics, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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A surprising result of pioneering neurosurgery was the discovery that some mental processes could be stimulated in the brain but others could not be. Read More ›

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August 24, 2024

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Mathematics
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, 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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Michael Egnor

Date
November 16, 2021

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Biology
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, brain, Christianity, dualism, epilepsy, inductive reasoning, inference to the best explanation, intellectual seizures, logic, materialism, mind, Mystery of the Mind, natural science, neuroscience, neuroscientists, neurosurgeons, surgery, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith, Wilder Penfield, William Shakespeare}

Dualism and Materialism in Modern Neuroscience

_{Michael Egnor
November 16, 2021

Biology, Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Wilder Penfield concluded that free will is not in the brain — it is an immaterial power of the mind. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 29, 2020

Categories
Mathematics
Neuroscience & Mind
Scientific Reasoning
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, brain, brain chemistry, chewing, consciousness, dualism, epilepsy, father, intellectual seizures, materialism, medical literature, mental function, Michael Egnor, Mind Matters, morality, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, Sabbath, smell, soul, walking, Wilder Penfield}

If Materialists Are Right About the Brain, Why No “Morality Seizures”?

_{David Klinghoffer
October 29, 2020

Mathematics, Neuroscience & Mind, Scientific Reasoning

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"There are no intellectual seizures, which is odd, given that large regions of the brain are presumed by neuroscientists to serve intellectual thought." Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
October 21, 2020

Categories
Fine-tuning
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
Philosophy of Science
Physical Sciences
Physics
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, abstract thought, BackReaction, brain states, Brian Miller, determinism, differential equations, Discovery Institute, Evolution News, free will, intellectual seizures, intelligent design, Jerry Coyne, Journal of Theoretical Biology, materialism, Michael Egnor, neuroscience, Sabine Hossenfelder, Stephen Meyer, thought, Wilder Penfield, will}

Fine-Tuning, Free Will — Now We’ve Got Two Challenges for Physicist Sabine Hossenfelder

_{David Klinghoffer
October 21, 2020

Fine-tuning, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Physical Sciences, Physics

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She acknowledges that she is speaking from outside one relevant field. Can you really use physics to deny free will while ignoring neuroscience? Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 22, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, abstract thought, Benjamin Libet, cerebral cortex, Darwinian evolution, Devil, dualism, magic, materialism, Michael Egnor, Neural Networks, neurons, neuroscience, psychiatry, Roger Sperry, Science Uprising, seizures, Spain, Spanish Inquisition, superstition, University of Toronto, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Explaining Abstract Thought in Materialist Terms: The Horns of a Dilemma

_{David Klinghoffer
July 22, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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What an interesting choice of art. What’s up with that? Goya painted other works on the same theme. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 27, 2019

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Neuroscience & Mind
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, __edited, abstract thought, atheism, brain, debate, epilepsy, materialism, Michael Egnor, mind, Neural Networks, neuroscience, psychiatry, Science Uprising, Stony Brook University, Wikipedia, Wilder Penfield}

Materialism Totters — Neural Network Theory to the Rescue?

_{David Klinghoffer
June 27, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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From Dr. Faizal Ali, it looks like another case of Materialism-of-the-Gaps reasoning. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
June 10, 2019

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
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, __k-review, Benjamin Libet, brain, free will, Jeffrey Schwartz, materialism, matter, media, Michael Egnor, mind, neuroscience, Science Uprising, Wilder Penfield}

Science Uprising, Episode 2: Mind Denial

_{David Klinghoffer
June 10, 2019

Neuroscience & Mind

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“We are robots made out of meat, which is what I’m going to try to convince you of today.” So says evolutionist Jerry Coyne. Read More ›

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Author
Michael Egnor

Date
July 26, 2018

Categories
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, __k-review, agency, brain, consciousness, dualism, epilepsy, free will, materialism, mind, Mystery of the Mind, neuroscience, neurosurgery, patients, science, stimulation, truth, Wilder Penfield}

Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield on Free Will

_{Michael Egnor
July 26, 2018

Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Materialists claim that neuroscience has demonstrated that free will is an illusion. Read More ›

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Author
David Klinghoffer

Date
July 5, 2018

Categories
Medicine
Neuroscience & Mind
Philosophy
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, __k-review, Benjamin Libet, brain, Edward Feser, English literature, handicapped, Hannah Arendt, intelligence, materialism, medicine, Michael Egnor, middle school, neuroscience, newborn, patients, physician, soul, Thomas Aquinas, ultrasound, Wilder Penfield}

Neuroscientist Michael Egnor, the Philosophical Physician, on Science and the Soul

_{David Klinghoffer
July 5, 2018

Medicine, Neuroscience & Mind, Philosophy

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Try to read his essay through to the end without getting chills. Read More ›