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Denyse O'Leary
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March 8, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Science writer: Explain-away-the-mind book doesn’t succeed

Denyse O'Leary
March 8, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mind, Neuroscience
Ball notes that the Journey of the Mind authors’ (phantom) reductionist revolution relies on a single cognitive scientist’s work. It's not that he thinks it's a terrible book. But he supposes (unusually in this area) that critical standards matter and that he should apply them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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February 25, 2022
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Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Single neurons perform complex math — even in fruit flies

Denyse O'Leary
February 25, 2022
Intelligent Design, Mathematics, Neuroscience
The fly’s specialized neurons either multiply or divide incoming signals in order to pinpoint the location of a sound or the direction of movement. How likely is this to happen without any intelligence behind nature at all? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 28, 2022
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Neuroscience mystery: How do tiny brains enable complex behavior?

Denyse O'Leary
January 28, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
Eric Cassell notes that insects with brains of only a million neurons exhibit principles found only in the most advanced man-made navigation systems. How? Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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January 17, 2022
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Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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At Mind Matters News: Did the octopus really know she was dying? Was she trying to say goodbye?

Denyse O'Leary
January 17, 2022
Animal minds, Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
It's an interesting fact that intelligence in animals is not nearly as firmly fixed in a hierarchy of evolution as we used to believe. Octopuses are extreme outliers and we are only just beginning to get to know them. Read More ›
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Denyse O'Leary
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December 9, 2021
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Information, Intelligent Design, Mind, Naturalism, Neuroscience
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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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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 16, 2021
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Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
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Human neurons are strangely more efficient than animal ones

Denyse O'Leary
November 16, 2021
Intelligent Design, Neuroscience
In the most extensive study of its kind, nine other [than human] mammals were studied. Larger mammals have larger neurons. And in every case but one, they found that “as the size of neurons increases, the density of channels found in the neurons also increases.” Except in humans, it was the reverse. 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 ›