Two Neurosurgeons on Life, Death, Eternity and What Truly Matters
Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on the just-released book, The Immortal MindThe two doctors turned out to share a bond of personal pain as well as immortal hope.
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Information, Evolution & AI: A Conversation with William Dembski
In discussion with neurosurgeon Michael Egnor, Dembski stresses that AI is a tool, not a mind. Treating it otherwise leads to addiction, manipulation, and cultural declineInformation isn’t free, Dembski says, and machines aren’t magic. By remembering what makes us human, we can use technology without losing ourselves to it.
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Michael Egnor: Science Offers Evidence of an Immaterial Mind
At the Knight and Rose show, he and co-author Denyse O’Leary talk about how split-brain surgeries, veridical near-death experiences, and terminal lucidity challenge materialist views of the mind.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 Skeptic, the Neuroscientist and the Neurosurgeon Walk Into a…
… most interesting discussion by all accounts. Skeptical science writer Michael Shermer hosted sometimes-controversial neuroscientist Christof Koch and Christian neurosurgeon Michael EgnorThe 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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Bill Dembski: The Power of Information and the Limits of AI
If you’re going to binge anyone, it might as well be Bill Dembski. On this episode of Mind Matters News, get your fill of insight and wisdom from Dr. Dembski, a senior fellow at Discovery Institute and a Distinguished Fellow with the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Here, he is interviewed by neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor. The Read More ›
The Immortal Mind: How Neuroscience Points Beyond Materialism
Andrew McDiarmid interviews neurosurgeon Michael Egnor on the ways in which the mind is more than the brainAfter defining terms, Egnor begins exploring the compelling evidence he has gathered across four decades of practice in neurosurgery.
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The Mind Beyond the Brain: Insights from a Neurosurgeon
Dr. Michael Egnor argues, “There’s something about the relationship between the mind and the brain that’s not in the textbooks.”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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Michael Egnor: Your Spiritual Soul Has No Off Switch
Here is Dr. Egnor’s talk at the Dallas Conference last February, where he discussed some themes from The Immortal Mind, to be published June 3He makes the case—based on 40 years of practice and over 7,000 brain surgeries—that science has gotten it all wrong about the soul.
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Here’s Neurosurgeon Mike Egnor on Sean McDowell’s Show
With a couple of revealing excerpts from the transcriptThe soul can seem a bit of a mystery because the popular idea of the soul, as a sort of “ghost” is not the traditional philosophical (or Christian) one.
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A Neurosurgeon Makes the Neuroscience Case for Free Will
Michael Egnor is concerned about the serious social implications of denying free willInsisting that there is no free will amounts to declaring “I’m a meat robot, so take seriously what I’m saying.” That’s self-refuting nonsense, Dr. Egnor says.
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The Nature of Mind, Free Will, and Human Uniqueness: A Deep Dive
The book Minding the Brain sparks some interesting discussions about what is really unique about the human mindMany philosophers have concluded both from experience and careful consideration that mental phenomena cannot be reduced to neural mechanisms.
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Can Christianity Just Abandon the Idea of the Soul?
Theologian Nancey Murphy thinks that the Christian tradition can do without the idea of a soul, by relying only on faith in a bodily resurrectionThe view Murphy outlines at Closer to Truth has more in common with modern materialism than with a traditional Christian understanding of the human soul.
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Beyond Materialism: Exploring the Mind-Brain Relationship
Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and philosopher Angus Menuge probe the relationship through philosophy, neuroscience, and information theoryUnderstanding the mind in terms of information processing, rather than as a byproduct of brain activity, could reshape the debate.
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5. NDEs: The Enduring Mystery of the Pam Reynolds Case
There can be no question that Reynolds was dead when she had an NDE during a risky operation. To succeed, the procedure required her to be dead…As evidence for NDEs accumulates, we hear from cardiologists rather than mediums on the subject and that is a promising development for future research.
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Brain Imaging Study Shows That Intelligence Uses the Whole Brain
A focus on specific regions like the prefrontal cortex can mislead. When we are thinking, we use brain-wide connections between many parts of the brain at onceIt’s not that the textbooks are wrong; they are just not telling the whole story.
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The Rational Soul: Rethinking Materialism with Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor
In this episode, Pat Flynn and Dr. Michael Egnor conclude their discussion of Dr. Egnor’s contribution to the recent volume Minding the Brain. Flynn and Dr. Egnor discuss Thomistic dualism and its relation to neuroscience and the soul. Thomistic dualism is the belief that the soul is a separate entity from the body and that the rational aspects of the soul, Read More ›
What Did Splitting Human Brains in Half Tell Us About the Mind?
How did split brain study subjects compare things when no part of their brains saw both things?As Michael Egnor told Pat Flynn, research of this sort — where split brains provide united perceptions — is an unacknowledged problem for materialism.
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What Brain Surgery for Epilepsy Taught Us About the Human Mind
Michael Egnor continues his discussion with Pat Flynn, noting that neither seizures nor Penfield’s brain stimulation provoked abstract thoughtThe claim that we will find a materialist explanation some day, no date specified, means that we never reckon with failure to do so.
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Science Writer: No Way To Tell If AI Is Conscious
Absent a definition of consciousness, it might not be possible to prove extravagant claims wrongThe difficulty of defining consciousness could very well be one of the reasons why tech moguls can get away with extravagant claims about conscious AI.
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Could Consciousness Have Evolved?
Michael Egnor takes a hard look at the evidence in this classic podcast episode.On a classic episode of ID the Future, neurosurgeon Michael Egnor interviews Bernardo Kastrup, a philosopher with a background in computer engineering, about consciousness, evolution, and intelligent design. Did consciousness evolve? What does the evidence suggest? And how do materialists deal with the seemingly immaterial reality that is consciousness? Enjoy this guest episode from Mind Matters, a podcast of Discovery Institute’s Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Dig Deeper Cross-posted at Evolution News.