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Denyse O'Leary
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December 9, 2021
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At Mind Matters News: Why neuroscientist Mark Solms is no materialist

Denyse O'Leary
December 9, 2021
Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
Mark Solms: Information, in neuroscience, is a crucial concept, and it’s very hard to think about quantum physics and the big questions that are unsolved that flow from it without the concept of information — which, I hasten to draw your attention to the fact, is not matter. I’m not a materialist for exactly that reason. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 7, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy, Science
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At Mind Matters News: Nautilus offers a primer on panpsychism

Denyse O'Leary
December 7, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Philosophy, Science
"What’s really interesting about [Massimo Pigliucci’s anti-panpsychism] comments is that even a decade or so ago, his was an utterly conventional view. Now he feels he must qualify it by saying “But that’s just one perspective and one way to look at it.” It seems that fewer researchers today expect the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” to suddenly yield to a new research finding — a situation that leaves many looking with interest and sympathy at a non-naturalist approach like panpsychism." Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 2, 2021
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Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Evolutionary psychology: When we looked in, no one was there…

Denyse O'Leary
December 2, 2021
Evolutionary psychology, Intelligent Design, Mind
Evo psych likely got started when psychologists wanted to get in on illuminating findings in evolution, like the Cambrian Explosion. Trouble is, there aren’t any prehumans around. And we don’t have a good reason to believe that early humans differed much from us in psychology. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 1, 2021
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Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Would cognition in bacteria “dethrone” humans?

Denyse O'Leary
December 1, 2021
Animal minds, Evolution, Intelligent Design, Mind
Takehome: Of course we can “see ourselves” as an earthworm. But it doesn’t work in reverse. And Pamela Lyon sheds no light on that fact, apart from denigrating humans. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 29, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Why panpsychism is starting to push out naturalism

Denyse O'Leary
November 29, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Panpsychism eliminates the crudities of Darwinism. For example, if consciousness is assumed to be a natural development in the most complex life forms, human consciousness would have happened, whether it improved survival or not. Darwinian controversies on the topic become pointless or anyway, much less significant. Perhaps that’s why a classical Darwinian, who needs to see human consciousness as a simple but controversial accident, views panpsychism with hostility. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 28, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience, Physics
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At Mind Matters News: Can quantum physics, neuroscience merge as quantum consciousness?

Denyse O'Leary
November 28, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience, Physics
The problem is, if we assume that “the mind is nothing more than the brain,” there may be nothing we can discover about how it works. Gleiser wishes we could prove that that’s wrong but he can’t. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 19, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Why so many neuroscientists are unreflective materialists

Denyse O'Leary
November 19, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
In his chapter of a new anthology, The Comprehensive Guide to Science and Faith: Exploring the Ultimate Questions About Life and the Cosmos (2021), neurosurgeon Michael Egnor looks at the growing evidence that the mind is not simply what the brain does and defends a dualist view. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 10, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientist: Mind is not just brain? That’s career limiting!

Denyse O'Leary
November 10, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
Neuropsychologist Mark Solms and neurosurgeon Michael Egnor agreed that clinical experience supports a non-materialist view of the mind but that the establishment doesn’t. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 7, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
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At Mind Matters News: Why physicalism is failing as the accepted approach to science

Denyse O'Leary
November 7, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism
Essentially, panpsychism offers a way for scientists to address human consciousness, as currently understood, without explaining it away as an illusion. It would allow us to say that if Zombie-Jane existed, she would be missing something critical that Jane has (and so does everything else, to some extent). Whether that makes panpsychism a better explanation of reality than idealism or dualism is a separate question. Like all points of view, they have their own issues but the Zombie isn’t one of them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 7, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: 2. Neurosurgeon and neuropsychologist agree: Brain is not mind

Denyse O'Leary
November 7, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Egnor saw patients who didn’t have most of their frontal lobes who were completely conscious, “in fact, rather pleasant, bright people.” Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 6, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: The brain stem, not the prefrontal cortex, may be the seat of consciousness

Denyse O'Leary
November 6, 2021
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Neuropsychologist Mark Solms: a lot of evidence, suggests that the source of consciousness in the brain is in fact in the brain stem, which is a much more ancient, much more primitive structure that we share, not only with all other primates and all other mammals, but in fact, with all vertebrates. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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November 5, 2021
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, language, Mind
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At Mind Matters News: Can AI help us talk to whales? Maybe. But then what?

Denyse O'Leary
November 5, 2021
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, language, Mind
In the real world, if we succeed in communicating with whales, it will be much like communicating successfully with dogs, cats, and horses. None of them are furry people. Whales are not blubbery people either. They won’t bring us closer to understanding what sets humans apart than dogs will. Read More ›