Denyse O’Leary: Why Materialism Can’t Explain the Mind

Intelligent Design the Future

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🗓️ 16 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Is the soul a myth? Does your mind really just boil down to brain function? On today's ID The Future, host Andrew McDiarmid speaks with journalist Denyse O'Leary about surprising findings out of neuroscience that shatter materialist assumptions. O'Leary is co-author with Dr. Michael Egnor of The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon's Case for the Existence of the Soul. In this conversation, O'Leary reports on recent findings about the origin of consciousness, the challenge that near-death experiences present to materialism, and why the only way to move past materialism is to reject it fully as a model. Source

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1:13.6	It's commonly held in neuroscience that the soul is a myth and that the mind is nothing more than the workings of the brain.
1:22.6	But the findings of science are challenging these assertions.
1:26.6	Today I get to speak with Denise O'Leary about a new book she has co-authored with Dr. Michael Agnor called
1:33.0	The Immortal Mind, a neurosurgeon's case for the existence of the soul.
1:38.2	Denise is a freelance journalist based in Victoria, Canada.
1:42.0	Specializing in faith and science issues, she is also co-author
1:45.6	with neuroscientist Mario Boregarde of the spiritual brain, a neuroscientist's case for the
1:51.8	existence of the soul. She received her degree in honors English, language, and literature. She
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