Denyse O'Leary
Researchers: Conscious Experience May Occur Near Time of Birth
Researchers generally stress that the unborn child’s brain is in a rapid, ongoing, and little understood state of development
Psychology: When a Child and a Chimp Were Raised Together…
When their son was ten months old, a psychologist couple decided to raise him alongside a baby female chimpanzee, for research purposes
The Human Mind Has No History
There is no good reason to assume that human intelligence evolved from mud to mind via a long slow history
Does the Evidence for Our Universe’s Fine-Tuning Mean Anything?
Why is a divine Mind not “scientific” if the evidence points in that direction?
Are Near-Death Experiences Becoming Science Now?
The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences
Will Studio’s New “After Death” Be a Hit Like “Sound of Freedom”?
The new 90-minute film interviews researchers and survivors of near-death experiencesAfter Death (Angel Studios 2023), a look at the many recent accounts of near-death experiences, will premiere October 27. Angel is the studio that produced the recent smash hit Sound of Freedom (2023). There’s a story in that: While SoF was trashed by fashionable media, it outgrossed some of the biggest films at the box office. Will After Death, directed by Stephen Gray and Chris Radtke, meet the same fate? Its basic message is that NDEs are becoming an intersection of science/medicine and faith. It will be interesting to see how the same fashionable media react. The principle reason for exploding interest in near-death experiences in recent decades is that high-tech medicine has been bringing back thousands of people from Read More ›
How Media Have Helped To Corrupt Science
Traditional popular media, science media, and science journalists have all helped create a situation where we can’t afford to Trust the Science!
Can AI Open Doors to Ancient Human History?
It’s not a time machine, to be sure, but it may help bring the past to life by motoring through dull, time-consuming translation tasks
What Does It Mean to Say That Spiders “Dream”?
It means much less than we might be led to think
Octopus Intelligence Is Unlike Anything We Know
Could such a different neurology really evolve purely by natural selection acting on random mutations?
Are Plants Cognitive, Intelligent Organisms? A Controversy Brews
Some plant biologists want to see them that way; others continue to insist on a Darwinian view
In Neuroscience Flap, Science Media Tackle “Pseudoscience” Claim
As the leading theory of consciousness is tarred by neuroscientists as “pseudoscience,” science media struggle to outline just WHAT science is
Five Key Ways Media Have Changed in the Last 35 Years
Major media no longer really represent a vast number of average audience members
Attack on Top Consciousness Theory Springs From Abortion Politics
If that sounds surprising and unscientific, read on. Pro and con, they make it clear
Can Cells Learn? Can Molecules Communicate? What We Are Learning…
We are learning that the world of life is full of intelligence that we just did not know about
Did “Evolution” Wire Human Brains to “Act Like Supercomputers”?
In making such a claim, psychology researchers may have got more than they bargained for
Leading Consciousness Theory Slammed as “Pseudoscience.” Huh?
Integrated Information Theory’s panpsychist leanings are the 124 neuroscientist critics’ real target
Split Mind: The Strangest Theory in Neuroscience?
The idea that we might all have separate, undetected consciousnesses in each half of our brain supports materialism but there’s little evidence for it