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  • From Operating Room to Chapel: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Faith

    From Operating Room to Chapel: A Neurosurgeon’s Journey to Faith
    2025/06/05
    Today, host Dr. Robert J. Marks continues his conversation with neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor about his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. In this segment, Dr. Egnor describes how a crisis involving his infant son’s potential autism led him to have a profound spiritual experience in a hospital chapel, causing him to embrace Read More ›

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  • Bill Dembski: The Power of Information and the Limits of AI

    Bill Dembski: The Power of Information and the Limits of AI
    2025/05/29
    If you’re going to binge anyone, it might as well be Bill Dembski. On this episode of Mind Matters News, get your fill of insight and wisdom from Dr. Dembski, a senior fellow at Discovery Institute and a Distinguished Fellow with the Walter Bradley Center for Natural and Artificial Intelligence. Here, he is interviewed by neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor. The Read More ›

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  • The Immortal Mind: An Interview with Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael

    The Immortal Mind: An Interview with Neurosurgeon Dr. Michael
    2025/05/22
    Is the mind more than the brain? Is there a scientific case for the existence of the soul? On this episode, host Dr. Robert J. Marks speaks with neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor about his new book The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon’s Case for the Existence of the Soul. Dr. Egnor is an experienced brain surgeon who previously held materialist views but Read More ›

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  • Why Our Minds Are More Than “Meat Computers”

    Why Our Minds Are More Than “Meat Computers”
    2025/05/15
    Some scientists and philosophers hold the view that our brains are basically brains made of meat. Today, Dr. Eric Holloway and Dr. Robert J. Marks explain what’s wrong with this idea in the concluding segment of their conversation with guest host Patrick Flynn. For starters, the computational theory of mind may be incompatible with materialism or physicalism, as formal, abstract Read More ›

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  • AI Language Models: Real Intelligence Or Creative Thievery?

    AI Language Models: Real Intelligence Or Creative Thievery?
    2025/05/08
    Are AI language models like ChatGPT, Grok, and Perplexity actually intelligent? Or are they getting away with a creative kind of thievery? Welcome to the Mind Matters News podcast, your source for discussions on all things philosophy of mind and artificial intelligence. Today, guest host Patrick Flynn continues his conversation with Dr. Eric Holloway and Dr. Robert J. Marks. The Read More ›

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  • Can Evolutionary Processes Take Credit for Human Creativity?

    Can Evolutionary Processes Take Credit for Human Creativity?
    2025/05/01
    On today’s episode, guest host Pat Flynn welcomes Dr. Eric Holloway and Professor Robert J. Marks to the podcast to discuss the information cost of creativity. Today’s conversation is based on a chapter in the book Minding the Brain authored by Dr. Holloway and Marks. Essentially, they are addressing the following question: Can the marvels of human creativity, like novels, speeches, and Read More ›

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  • Is There a Mind Behind the Math Behind the Material World?

    Is There a Mind Behind the Math Behind the Material World?
    2025/04/24
    What does it mean for something to exist? Today, we’re joined by Doug Axe to talk about idealism and what it means for understanding the world around us. Idealism is the belief that reality exists exclusively of minds and their ideas, rather than a physical, material world. This contrasts with physicalism/materialism which views the physical world as the only true Read More ›

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  • The Unique Properties of the Human Mind

    The Unique Properties of the Human Mind
    2025/04/17
    Today’s episode is a special rebroadcast of an episode of Humanize, a Discovery Institute podcast that discusses the issues that impact human personhood and to defend the unique and intrinsic moral worth of human life. Here, Humanize host Wesley J. Smith speaks to three contributors of the recent volume Minding the Brain to explore from both philosophical and scientific viewpoints why the Read More ›

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