Materialist explanations for near-death experiences are much less satisfactory than simply accepting that the mind can act independently of the brain
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When we talk about memory, we often use word pictures that make it seem as though memories behave like material things but they don’t.
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For reasons that are not yet clear, blind people can see during a near-death experience and details have been confirmed. Habermas relates some cases.
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It’s exceedingly unlikely, Prof. Habermas argues, that all these cases result from misperception deception, coincidences, or mistakes.
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The AI scientist’s dream of general intelligence, often referred to as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), remains as elusive as ever.
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Today, when children with Down syndrome can grow up, they can display remarkable abilities, as the story of the Edmonton Oilers’ Joey Moss shows.
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Giuseppina D’oro’s essay introduces two 20th-century idealist philosophers — Oakeshott and Collingwood — and their critique of psychology as a science.
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Hylomorphism, derived from ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, unites the sou with the body without denying its immateriality or immortality.
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Physicist Werner Heisenberg saw in the dilemma of language — the specific vs. the general — an analogy to his famous Uncertainty Principle in physics.
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Fifty years ago slick commentators expected to explode myths about the soul or the hereafter but today, NDEs and terminal lucidity are serious research topics.
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The human brain was bound to disappoint a pop culture quest for easy answers; brain imaging has not turned out to be a road map of the mind.
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Imagine you’re sitting at home, relaxing in your favorite easy chair. Go on, kick your legs up. Feel your limbs releasing the stress of the day, starting from the extremities, and progressing up your core to your head. Now, let your mind expand. Let go of what is holding your mind down. Feel it become free, outside of everything around it. Let the feeling continue until your mind is bigger than the universe. Now consider the question: if your mind is bigger than the universe, can it be within the universe? If a ball is bigger than a bag, can it be contained by the bag? Of course not. If the mind is bigger than the universe, then it must Read More ›
The materialist philosophers ground war on “substance dualism” is really a war on what all human beings innately believe.
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Julian Jaynes, a researcher at Princeton, developed his theory after he was not able to demonstrate the evolution of consciousness via animal studies.
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We must mentally step outside nature to consider things like how the world was created or what lies beyond death. Immaterial minds can do that.
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Social media can be a tool for free discussions with people worldwide who may not go to the conferences, sign up for the courses, or read the books we do.
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Those who think that Harvard’s best and brightest should rule over us might want to invest some time to discover how some of them really think.
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It’s no surprise if a wide range of animals understand human contentedness vs. anger. Those are precisely the elements of the mind that we and goats share.
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Dembski also touches on Ray Kurzweil’s quest for digital immortality and how it falls short of the original quest and its religious expressions.
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Memories during near-death experiences, when the mind is not in touch with the brain, are often clear, precise, and comprehensive.
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