Author: Michael Egnor
What Epilepsy Can Teach About the Mind
I have treated thousands of patients with epilepsy. Seizures can result in a variety of behaviors and emotions. But let me tell you what they don’t do.
The Logical Basis of the Immaterial Mind
The indeterminacy of matter precludes brain states from forming the basis of abstract thought. Simple logic points to this truth.
Materialist Versus Dualist Understandings of the Mind: Comparing Predictions
Persistent vegetative state (PVS) is considered the most extreme state of brain injury, short of brain death.
Debating the Legacy of Neuroscientist Wilder Penfield
How much more evidence is necessary to draw the scientific inference that activation of brain networks is insufficient to generate abstract thought?
We Can Learn About the Mind from Damaged Brains
Now we have solid neuroscience to show that the theologians and philosophers were and are right.