Nothing in this universe simply dissipates; it is always transformed. The immaterial world is similar.
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Harris is the wife of well-known New Atheist neuroscientist Sam Harris, at one time one of the Four Horsemen of the New Atheist apocalypse.
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In an intellectually rich discussion on Mind Matters News, neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor and host Dr. Robert J. Marks explore the scientific, philosophical, and theological dimensions of free will, determinism, and the immaterial nature of the soul. The conversation centers around contents of the new book The Immortal Mind by Egnor and Denyse O’Leary. What emerges is a compelling case not only for the reality of free will, but also for the immortality of the human soul, grounded in reason and neuroscience. The self-refuting nature of free will denial The conversation begins with an analogy: If a spilled bottle of ink coincidentally formed the words “It’s going to snow,” no one would believe that message had real meaning. Similarly, Egnor Read More ›
If science, as interpreted by some, can’t address immaterial realities like our ability to reason and thus do science, so much the worse for that interpretation
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Should a neuroscience approach to terminal lucidity merely mean reassuring the world that someday we will prove that it is just random brain noise?
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Here’s a challenge to the materialist theory that every mental state is a brain state: How can a perfect thought be an imperfect brain state?
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A question for materialists: How can infinite states of my intellect be generated by finite states of my brain?
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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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In too many discussions, intelligence is treated as if it were a linear phenomenon that more scaling and a few extra gigabytes of data will solve.
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Mathematics is not material, yet artificial intelligence proponents believe that the mathematics of their neural networks is the seat of consciousness.
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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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Egnor’s work invites readers to reconsider the mysteries of the mind, urging a more open and curious approach to understanding human consciousness.
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On the topic of computer self-awareness, Grok is algorithmically responding in accordance to the material and instructions it was trained with. Period.
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f minds cannot be reduced to computers, then AI will never replicate human cognition in full. Realizing this fact will affect how we approach education, governance, and economics.
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We are learning new things about the mind–brain complex every day and not everything is what we expected to find.
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People offer different accounts of how it comes to exist but that is a different matter.
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Continued failure to materialize the mind could be the beginning of a serious reckoning with the problems that physicalism and materialism represent.
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