Denyse O'Leary
Is Bluesky finding the limits of the sky?
Science Writer: The Self Is Part of a Conscious Universe
Annaka Harris seems to be fleeing eliminative materialism — the snake that eats its own tail
A Physicist Ponders the Nature of Consciousness
Ethan Siegel fears that we abandon science when we think that consciousness is not a material thing
Near-Death Experiences Are Taken More Seriously Now
After reading a recent news article on NDEs, I revisited a book published in 2007 to get some sense of the change
Wesley J. Smith: Why Is Assisted Suicide So Popular So Suddenly?
Smith argues that the purpose of society itself is shifting for many people
Two Neurosurgeons on Life, Death, Eternity and What Truly Matters
Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on the just-released book, The Immortal Mind
Pew: Rate of Decline in Christian Belief in U.S. Is Slowing
The decline may be in the process of reversing itself. News items tell the story
Hawk learns to monitor traffic signals to catch urban prey
Physicist: “Bad Philosophy” May Spur Search for New Physics
Carlo Rovelli points out that revolutions’ in the history of fundamental physics are more conservative than they are often depicted
AI developer wants to try to translate animal languages
Study: Another crow first — crows can detect geometric shapes
How a Split Brain Enables a Unified Mind Still Baffles Us
In the comments following Sean McDowell’s interview with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, a viewer asked, are the parts of a split brain still really connected?
A Challenge to Pale Blue Dot-ology: Earth Is Significant
The “pale blue dot lost in space” view of Earth seems to brand science as an intellectual property of materialist atheism. And evidence isn’t what keeps it going
Has Physics Pounded a New Nail in the Coffin of Materialism?
Cognitive scientist Donald Hoffman says that matter is now known not to be fundamental but that fact is taking a while to catch onStudy: Neanderthals invented their own tech, didn’t copy others
What Did the Multi-Year Consciousness Study Really Find?
Surprisingly, the joint research teams found that the prefrontal cortex, the “personality center,” may not be as important for consciousness as we think
Fish Can Recognize Individual Humans — But What Does That Imply?
Wild fish told the divers apart by their diving gear when they could gain a food reward for doing so
Old-fashioned journalists aren’t dead; they’re on Substack
