Batthyány also expressed concern that a non-material/spiritual understanding of topics like terminal lucidity risks being taken over today by New Age nonsense.
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In the discussion with Batthyány, Egnor suggested that people who inexplicably become more lucid near death are drawing closer to the light of God.
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Neither shortage of oxygen nor the presence of relatives account for the sudden release from confusion or dementia.
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Serious research on terminal lucidity will immensely damage the sort of materialism that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker champions.
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Pundits and politicians alike are tempted by the idea that, if there are no higher powers or greater realities to answer to, they can force people to fulfil their visions with impunity.
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Shermer told Mind Matters News after the event that he would bump up his credence in the existence of souls from 1% to 2% out of 99%.
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He sees words like “mind” and “soul” as just linguistic placeholders until we have a fully material explanation for how we function.
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X recently allowed users to find out that many loud voices poisoning public discussion are not who they claim to be.
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Egnor thinks that the strongest evidence that the mind is not merely the brain comes from epilepsy and split brain research.
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Some feats of apparent intelligence point to information sources that did not likely just evolve over time among the life forms.
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At his blog, scientist and clergyman Kirk Durston takes on theoretical physicist Sabine Hossenfelder, who denies free will.
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She then blows up her own case by dragging Aristotle into it. Chimpanzees are NOT showing what Aristotle meant by reason.
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We seem a long way now from the once-dominant science view of eliminative materialism in which even human consciousness was not considered real.
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All these intellectual worthies choose to miss the point: No life form other than humans writes books, reviews books, or contemplates any of the issues raised.
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We can learn a lot from fossil footprints — who went where, when, and why — that static artifacts don’t tell us by themselves.
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There seems less interest today in maintaining a “subhuman” status for our Neanderthal ancestors. It’s good if that sort of thing makes people uncomfortable.
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Science is incompatible with the onslaught of post-modernism. A major rift in biology may be looming straight ahead.
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The researchers are not really under any pressure to resolve the consciousness conundrum; just to come up with new (materialist) theories about it.
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This is yet another blow to the current effort to claim that humans are not sex binary.
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The reason medical researchers now take NDEs seriously is a growing body of evidence that can’t just be tossed off with a simple explanation.
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