A retired psychotherapist from Arizona who spent some 40 years working in hospitals and prisons with schizophrenic patients, was quite disturbed when his analysis of some patients pointed to the supernatural.
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Who gave consciousness and creativity to whoever or whatever is responsible for simulating us, and who simulated our simulator?
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For Berkeley, God is the basis for improving one’s life, not damaging it, and a common-sense view of life is the best path to achieving such a goal.
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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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The Bible has many references to dreams. But what are these mysterious thoughts that occupy our minds as we sleep?
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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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Egnor continued to reference the scientific research at the foundation of his talk and repeatedly challenged his questioners.
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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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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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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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Egnor says there is massive evidence that the mind is not simply what the brain does but Shermer insists that it is all unexplained natural phenomena.
Read More ›The two disciplines of neuroscience and philosophy must work together to better understand what it means to be conscious, to choose, and to be human.
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Green argues for humility because, while neuroscience is powerful and rapidly advancing, it may never explain the full reality of the human person.
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Near-death experiences are challenging — not science — but the materialist presumption that has dominated for many decades in science.
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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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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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The problem with neuroscience today, Dr. Green says, isn’t lack of data, but lack of a unifying theory.
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