ID the Future, a podcast about evolution and intelligent design.

Welcome to ID the Future. I'm your host, Andrew McDermott. Well, today I'm excited to welcome back

renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Agnor to continue talking with me about his new book, The Immortal Mind, renowned neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor to continue talking with me about

his new book, The Immortal Mind, a neurosurgeon's case for the existence of the soul.

Dr. Egnor is a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook.

Named one of New York's best doctors by New York Magazine in 2005, Eggnore is an

award-winning brain surgeon who has performed over 7,000 brain operations. Dr. Agnor, welcome

back. Thank you, Andrew. It's a pleasure to be back. And by the way, you know, 7,000 brain

operations. Are you adding to that tally daily, weekly?

How many are you doing these days?

Two or three a week.

Wow. And yeah, yeah. I'm getting a little old for this, but yeah, I do two or three a week.

Yeah. And you can trace that all the way back to your training in Miami, which you say it was a very busy and opportune place

to learn your trade. And you detail some of that in the book. Yeah, yeah, it was a busy time.

I spent six years at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, and it's a very, very busy place.

Well, so you've written this book making a case that the human soul exists

and that the mind is immortal. And over a couple of episodes of the podcast, we're unpacking

some of the arguments and evidence that you've marshaled for these provocative ideas. In a previous

episode, we covered some basics as we teased out some of the key insights of your book.

You covered the definitions of mind, brain, and soul. You broke down for us the difference between the materialist view and the view that you hold, the dualist view it's called.

We discussed the example of split brain surgery and what that reveals about the unity

of the mind. We talked about what we can learn about

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