{"id":4289,"date":"2026-01-06T15:07:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/?p=4289"},"modified":"2026-01-06T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T13:09:04","slug":"a-neurosurgeons-proof-of-an-immortal-soul-dr-michael-egnor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/a-neurosurgeons-proof-of-an-immortal-soul-dr-michael-egnor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Neurosurgeon\u2019s Proof of an Immortal Soul | Dr. Michael Egnor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe  id=\"_ytid_35162\"  width=\"840\" height=\"472\"  data-origwidth=\"840\" data-origheight=\"472\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BMnLl6M2Dio?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;color=red&#038;controls=1&#038;disablekb=0&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cNeuroscientists who stand up and say \u2018we have souls\u2019 are few and far between,\u201d says pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor. \u201cBut when you look carefully at the neuroscience\u2014the best neuroscience over the past century\u2014it clearly points to the existence of the soul and to the existence of aspects of our mind that don&#8217;t come from the brain.\u201d 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\u2019s found. \u201cNeuroscience is just fundamentally wrong in a lot of ways \u2026 because of the materialist bias in neuroscience. We can&#8217;t get away from this machine analogy, [but] we&#8217;re not machines, and we don&#8217;t work like machines work. And there&#8217;s overwhelming evidence in neuroscience for the existence of a soul,\u201d he says. Dr. Egnor is a professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at Stony Brook University, a senior fellow at the Discovery Institute, and the co-author of the book \u201cThe Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon&#8217;s Case for the Existence of the Soul.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Immortal Mind: A Neurosurgeon\u2019s Case for the Existence of the Soul\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"840\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_1cxBaVpnxgk9AH&#038;asin=1546006354&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"The Mystery of the Mind: A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain (Princeton Legacy Library)\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"840\" height=\"550\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen style=\"max-width:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/read.amazon.com\/kp\/card?preview=inline&#038;linkCode=kpd&#038;ref_=k4w_oembed_mwJ2nyPQOagqKS&#038;asin=0691273693&#038;tag=kpembed-20\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cNeuroscientists who stand up and say \u2018we have souls\u2019 are few and far between,\u201d says pediatric neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor. \u201cBut when you look carefully at the neuroscience\u2014the best neuroscience over the past century\u2014it clearly points to the existence of the soul and to the existence of aspects of our mind that don&#8217;t come from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2026\/01\/06\/a-neurosurgeons-proof-of-an-immortal-soul-dr-michael-egnor\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Neurosurgeon\u2019s Proof of an Immortal Soul | Dr. Michael Egnor&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95,41,98],"tags":[24,33,26,109],"class_list":["post-4289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","hentry","category-talks","category-neuroscience","category-science","tag-consciousness","tag-neuro-science","tag-self-knowledge","tag-talks","post_format-post-format-video"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":610,"url":"https:\/\/triality.nl\/index.php\/2023\/01\/15\/610\/","url_meta":{"origin":4289,"position":0},"title":"The Neuroscience of Consciousness \u2013 with Anil Seth","author":"admin","date":"January 15, 2023","format":"video","excerpt":"https:\/\/youtu.be\/xRel1JKOEbI Professor of Cognitive and Computational Neuroscience Anil Seth looks at the neuroscience of consciousness and how our biology gives rise to the unique experience of being you. 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