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A Neurosurgeon’s Proof of an Immortal Soul
American Thought Leaders-The Epoch Times ^ | 11/12/25 | Dr. Michael Egnor

Posted on 12/14/2025 11:44:02 AM PST by Eleutheria5

“Neuroscientists who stand up and say ‘we have souls’ are few and far between,” says pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor.

“But when you look carefully at the neuroscience—the best neuroscience over the past century—it clearly points to the existence of the soul and to the existence of aspects of our mind that don't come from the brain.”

Egnor himself started off as a materialist and atheist. But 40 years and more than 7,000 brain surgeries later, he concluded that reason and free will do not reside in the brain. In this episode, he reveals what he’s found.

“Neuroscience is just fundamentally wrong in a lot of ways … because of the materialist bias in neuroscience. We can't get away from this machine analogy, [but] we're not machines, and we don't work like machines work. And there's overwhelming evidence in neuroscience for the existence of a soul,” he says.

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TOPICS: Health/Medicine; Reference; Religion; Science
KEYWORDS: brain; descartes; immortalsoul; neuroscience; soul; soulproof
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To: Right Brigade

Machines that are able to look at things, like radiographics, can see better than humans can; and they can store more images with which to compare. AI is a tool, no different in general purpose than many other tools.

The science is a natural evolution of that which created tools you’ve been using for decades now.


41 posted on 12/14/2025 3:06:19 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: cdpap

Funny you use the word antenna. That’s how I started describing it after coming very close to death (run over by one of the precious “migrants” who had multiple DUIs).


42 posted on 12/14/2025 3:41:07 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: Right Brigade

AI can trade stocks for you, write for you, compose music for you, even immitate your speaking style and voice. It can even be your girlfriend, and with the right attachments simulate sex. This is dangerous. People can grow so dependent on it, that it does all their higher functions for them, which atrophe, ultimately making them vulnerable and pathetic. It’s like Pierre Boulle’s Planet of the Apes meets The Terminator.


43 posted on 12/14/2025 3:49:03 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Tucker39

Yup.


44 posted on 12/14/2025 4:26:36 PM PST by Eleutheria5
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To: Eleutheria5

bump


45 posted on 12/14/2025 8:03:00 PM PST by Albion Wilde (To live free is the greatest gift; to die free is the greatest victory. —Erica Kirk)
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To: OriginalChristian

Save


46 posted on 12/14/2025 9:15:23 PM PST by OriginalChristian (The end of the American Republic as founded, began when the first Career Politician was elected...)
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To: Eleutheria5

Save for later.


47 posted on 12/15/2025 8:51:30 AM PST by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: Eleutheria5

Hum. “You are a Soul, you have a body....” C.S. Lewis


48 posted on 12/15/2025 6:23:25 PM PST by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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