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.
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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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New technologies enable ideas and abilities that are latent in human beings to take form. Thus claims about the evolution of consciousness are problematic.
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But today, the serious problem is not modernism and scientism, which are fading. It is post-modernism, which rejects reason and evidence.
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Twenty years ago, materialism was expected to explain everything; now, more people are looking for broader picture answers.
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Even if we adopt a materialist view of the mind, I believe I can show why it is not possible for a machine to develop a mind.
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One effect of the presumption of atheism in science is that all kinds of speculation can be grandfathered as reasonable scientific thinking.
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The human soul has been understood as quite real but immaterial and non-local. It is instantiated in a body, which is material and local.
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Materialists will try to interpret the workings of the brain as one aspect of consciousness that is a natural part of the material universe.
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Donny Budinsky and co-host Sam prompted a general discussion of experience versus reality when it comes to the human mind.
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Tyler Bauer: If personal identity is grounded in an immaterial soul, the real Smith is the body that contains his original soul.
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Much that the NDE experiencer learns cannot easily be expressed, because there are no words for experiences that most people have only after they die.
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While Goodall believed that there is no sharp line dividing humans and chimpanzees, she herself was one of many who embodied the sharp line.
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As prominent neuroscientist Christof Koch’s recent difficulties with Cancel Culture show, the cracks in materialist neuroscience are getting harder to paper over.
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