If the evidence suggests that aspects of the human mind are immaterial, what does it mean to say that “science” says it can’t be true?
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The conventional assumption today is that consciousness has a material source. Yet no one has found a place where it lives in the brain.
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That is the key message behind the new book, The Immortal Mind (2025), of which she is neurosurgeon Michael Egnor’s co-author.
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About existential questions, he says, “I no longer settled for the stock answers that many scientists, like me, had naively accepted for so long.”
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In Egnor’s view, materialism does not seem nearly as prevalent among neurosurgeons as among neuroscientists, who face more grant-driven pressure to conform.
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The discussion touched on many areas covered by the new book, The Immortal Mind, but one scientist’s dilemma stood out.
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Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor urges caution: Making a difference in neurodegenerative diseases will be more difficult than simply growing new neurons.
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But, while the mind generally depends on a healthy brain, sometimes lucidity can come surging back to a demented person briefly and unexpectedly.
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Michael Egnor and I wrote The Immortal Mind to show that the mind is not simply what the brain does and this story is but one example among many.
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One thing that stood out was the commenters’ appreciation of a cordial discussion of often-controversial topics.
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Koch hoped that the “shared brain” experiment would demonstrate materialism. He may have been unprepared for Egnor’s response.
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Egnor: Consciousness is not the kind of thing that can be split, and there’s no evidence that one person can ever become two people.
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A radio version of the program is also available for download at iHeart.
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At one point, the discussion turned on the case of a girl who had her sense of guilt removed surgically. What does that prove about the mind and the brain?
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A growing body of neuroscience evidence directly challenges the prevailing theory that we are merely flawed computers, to be replaced by machines.
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The two doctors turned out to share a bond of personal pain as well as immortal hope.
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I believe that children with hydranencephaly are conscious because all human beings have a spiritual soul and it is by virtue of our soul that we are conscious.
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In their book, The Immortal Mind, Egnor and O’Leary argue that an immaterial, immortal soul best explains human consciousness, free will, and abstract thought.
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The fate of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts vs. how committed they are to protecting a materialist view.
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After defining terms, Egnor begins exploring the compelling evidence he has gathered across four decades of practice in neurosurgery.
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