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Animal minds Intelligent Design Mind Neuroscience

At Mind Matters News: Defending the mind’s reality at a materialist cocktail party

What to say when you find yourself among self-assured elite sloganeers. The actual history of neuroscience in the last century has not been kind to materialist assertions and assumptions.

Posted on August 20, 2021August 20, 2021 Author News Comments(2)
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At Mind Matters News: Can traditional philosophy help us understand mind vs. brain?

In the Western world, the traditional view of the soul originated with Greek philosophers, chiefly Aristotle and Plato.

Posted on July 8, 2021July 8, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
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At Mind Matters News: Egnor vs. Papineau Round 4, Egnor defends the mind vs. the brain

It became quite the dustup actually. Egnor deals with the brain as an organ, not a theory, and doesn’t see it as equivalent to the mind. Papineau differs.

Posted on July 7, 2021July 7, 2021 Author News Comments(6)
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscientist: We are closing in on the secret of self-awareness…

But then he turns around and admits that we are frustratingly far from understanding how it all works. His frustration is understandable.

Posted on May 1, 2021 Author News Comment(0)
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Indian jumping ants can shrink and regrow their brains

It’s certainly true that the brain is plastic. but human brains can do more remarkable things than ant brains. People can function with split brains or half a brain or hardly any brain and be intellectually normal. We didn’t know that before brain scanning.

Posted on April 19, 2021April 19, 2021 Author News Comment(1)
Intelligent Design stasis

Would you believe… that the brain-eye connection evolved 100 million years earlier than believed?

Isn’t this becoming a trend? Textbook Darwinism is surely a hindrance to the student who must learn and regurgitate the “narrative” while, if the interest is there, learning the facts by other means.

Posted on April 10, 2021 Author News Comments(18)
Intelligent Design Mind Neuroscience Philosophy

J. P. Moreland on mind over matter

Moreland on the difference between the mind and the brain, how it points to the existence of the soul, and how we can communicate this to others.

Posted on April 4, 2021April 4, 2021 Author News Comments(3)
Human evolution Mind

More on the “smaller prey” theory of how human brains got so big

Humans needed bigger brains, we are told, to hunt “smaller, swifter prey. But look at all the other theories.

Posted on March 13, 2021 Author News Comments(2)
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In new book, a psychologist tries to explain consciousness

Mark Solms clearly assumes, in his Psychology Today column, that the mind is just what the brain does. But that’s precisely the claim that the very existence of consciousness clouds.

Posted on December 19, 2020 Author News Comments(3)
Animal minds Intelligent Design Neuroscience

Neuroscience puzzle: A rat with almost no brain functioned for years like a normal rat

The more we learn about nature, using new technology, the less we KNOW!, in the way we used to.

Posted on November 17, 2020November 17, 2020 Author News Comments(4)
Animal minds Intelligent Design Mind

Researchers: We think we know why humans are smarter than animals

Yet, despite doing completely different things, the human brain uses the same equipment as the chimpanzee brain. Not a good time to be a shallow naturalist. Maybe a deep naturalist; not a shallow one.

Posted on November 12, 2020 Author News Comments(2)
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Ten reasons why your brain is not the same as your mind

6. If the mind were real, wouldn’t we be able to control things by thoughts alone? We do that now with our bodies. And we can do it under other circumstances too if an electrical connection can be established. Neurons can work with electrical signals from electronics.

Posted on October 11, 2020 Author News Comments(4)
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At Mind Matters News: Human, mouse, and fly brains all use the same basic mechanisms

The study of brains in recent decades has yielded a very different picture from the patterns we might have expected

Posted on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 Author News Comment(1)
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Michael Egnor: Philosopher’s claim that split brain surgery shows that we have no real identity is wrong

(As a neurosurgeon) I’ve done that operation so let me explain why they mislead us.

Posted on September 6, 2020September 6, 2020 Author News Comment(1)
Intelligent Design Naturalism Philosophy Physics

Ed Feser on theoretical physicist’s new book: “the particle collection that fancied itself a physicist”

Feser: Alfred Korzybski once said, “the map is not the territory.” If only more physicists were capable of seeing what a crackpot linguist could!

Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 Author News Comments(3)

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