CategoryPhilosophy of Mind
Taking the Side of Science — But How Do We Know Which One It Is?
In writing that science’s materialism is absolute, Richard Lewontin wrote as one who did not grasp the fatal flaw in his absolutism
Part 2: Have the Superbirds Arrived? Are They Taking Over?
Dr. Avian now claims that his work with trained birds show that intelligence does not require inner models or internal representations, as formerly thought
Conundrum: Split Human Brain But Unified Perception
1500 papers later, current research suggests that a non-materialist approach to the neuroscience of the human mind is quite viable
Science: Slowly Accepting a Non-Materialist View of the Mind?
Ken Francis’s comments at New English Review brought back memories
Does the Mind Have a Specific Location in the Brain?
A rabbi asks neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how consciousness can exist without a place in the brain
How Studying AI Helped a Prof See Why the Mind is Non-Physical
A computer science professor shows, using logic, how you must be more than mere matter
Can Faith and Neuroscience Align? Yes, Says Science Writer
If both faith and neuroscience are honestly seeking the truth, says Denyse O’Leary, they will find much that is mutually supportive
Podcast: Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor Reads From The Immortal Mind
He followed the evidence and came to see that the human mind has a spiritual and immortal dimension
Ancient Burials Are in the News Again — for Good Reason
Archaeologists are reporting on a group culture around death from 100,000 years ago, maybe involving both Neanderthals and modern humans
A Podcast Host Asks, How Many Neurosurgeons Are Materialists…?
Will Spencer asked neurosurgeon Michael Egnor how he responds to colleagues who believe that we are just meat puppets
Iain McGilchrist on Consciousness, Materialism, and Religion
Don't forget the right side of the brain
An Ancient Argument for the Existence of the Human Soul
Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine tells a friend about a dream a skeptical local doctor had, where a sharp youth asked him some pointed questions
Consciousness and Free Will: JP Moreland’s Case for Dualism
He argues that dualism, the sense that we are souls as well as bodies, is the natural interpretation of our lived experience
Science Dilemma: Bucking the Trend and Searching for Truth
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor tells host Allan CP about the risks scientists face if they say that human beings have souls
Do Fungi Demonstrate a Form of Intelligence? What Does That Mean?
Yes, the natural world is full of intelligence and we are only scratching the surface of it. But…
Does Dementia Show That the Mind Is Simply What the Brain Does?
People with dementia have severe memory issues, along with motor, perception and emotional disabilities, and that curtails their powers of reason
Burying Stories Is No Way to Advance Science
A story about a man with a severe brain defect who led an apparently normal life has been almost buried in efforts to explain it away
Neuroscientist Christof Koch proposes a bold brain experiment…
… worthy of science fiction — that he and his debate opponent, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, could share a brain via Neuralink. And what would happen then?