
Michael R. Egnor, MD, is a Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook, has served as the Director of Pediatric Neurosurgery, and award-winning brain surgeon. He was named one of New York’s best doctors by the New York Magazine in 2005. He received his medical education at Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and completed his residency at Jackson Memorial Hospital. His research on hydrocephalus has been published in journals including Journal of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, and Cerebrospinal Fluid Research. He is on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Hydrocephalus Association in the United States and has lectured extensively throughout the United States and Europe.
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The Person as “Immaterial Substance”

Discussing the Cartesian Error

Neuroscience, the Mind, and Theism

The Nature of Mind, Body, and Soul

Alzheimer’s, Medical Ethics, and Choosing Life

Caring for the Deeply Forgetful

Kenneth Miller on Consciousness and Evolution
Despite Miller's claims, neither human reason nor free will evolved because neither are generated by material processes
Sean Carroll: “How Could an Immaterial Mind Affect the Body?”
The well known physicist thinks free will is nonsense. But has he investigated the classical understanding of causation?
Mathematics Can Prove the Existence of God
Atheist biologist Jerry Coyne finds that difficult to believe but it’s really a matter of logic
Is God Just a “Hypothesis” Like the Big Bang?

Hinduism, Philosophy, and the Mind

Is Consciousness a “Controlled Brain Hallucination”? No.
Anil Seth explains away consciousness away using fashionable terms like that. As a pediatric neurosurgeon, I know from clinical experience that he is wrong
Atheists Who Scold Us on Morality Acknowledge God’s Existence
For example, every time internet-famous atheist P. Z. Myers scolds humanity on morality and immorality, he demonstrates the point
Philosopher: I’m Neither Me, Myself nor I… Yet I Give Interviews!
Theoretical philosopher Thomas Metzinger tells his interviewer “Nobody ever had or was a self. Selves are not part of reality.”
Yes, Spiders Dream — But That Doesn’t Make Them Leggy People
We don’t know where on the tree of life “mind,” in the most basic sense, begins. It might include bacteria but not viruses
Mathematics Can Prove the Existence of God
Atheist biologist Jerry Coyne finds that difficult to believe but it’s really a matter of logic
Mysteries of the Mind

Is Consciousness the Sort of Thing That Could Have Evolved?
Researchers Simona Ginsberg and Eva Jablonka have written a book attempting to trace the evolution of consciousness