The discussion touched on many areas covered by the new book, The Immortal Mind, but one scientist’s dilemma stood out.
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Human intelligence is different. For one thing, we think about what we are thinking about — the ultimate abstract process because both elements are immaterial.
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But, while the mind generally depends on a healthy brain, sometimes lucidity can come surging back to a demented person briefly and unexpectedly.
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Michael Egnor and I wrote The Immortal Mind to show that the mind is not simply what the brain does and this story is but one example among many.
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Koch hoped that the “shared brain” experiment would demonstrate materialism. He may have been unprepared for Egnor’s response.
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Egnor: Consciousness is not the kind of thing that can be split, and there’s no evidence that one person can ever become two people.
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Far from being outdated, the soul remains a vital concept for any worldview that takes seriously the realities of consciousness, freedom, and human equality.
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A radio version of the program is also available for download at iHeart.
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At one point, the discussion turned on the case of a girl who had her sense of guilt removed surgically. What does that prove about the mind and the brain?
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The growth of panpsychism is likely to change the nature of the science problems that are considered hard. But we shall see.
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Nothing in this universe simply dissipates; it is always transformed. The immaterial world is similar.
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Harris is the wife of well-known New Atheist neuroscientist Sam Harris, at one time one of the Four Horsemen of the New Atheist apocalypse.
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In an intellectually rich discussion on Mind Matters News, neurosurgeon Dr. Michael Egnor and host Dr. Robert J. Marks explore the scientific, philosophical, and theological dimensions of free will, determinism, and the immaterial nature of the soul. The conversation centers around contents of the new book The Immortal Mind by Egnor and Denyse O’Leary. What emerges is a compelling case not only for the reality of free will, but also for the immortality of the human soul, grounded in reason and neuroscience. The self-refuting nature of free will denial The conversation begins with an analogy: If a spilled bottle of ink coincidentally formed the words “It’s going to snow,” no one would believe that message had real meaning. Similarly, Egnor Read More ›
If science, as interpreted by some, can’t address immaterial realities like our ability to reason and thus do science, so much the worse for that interpretation
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Should a neuroscience approach to terminal lucidity merely mean reassuring the world that someday we will prove that it is just random brain noise?
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Here’s a challenge to the materialist theory that every mental state is a brain state: How can a perfect thought be an imperfect brain state?
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A question for materialists: How can infinite states of my intellect be generated by finite states of my brain?
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The two doctors turned out to share a bond of personal pain as well as immortal hope.
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I believe that children with hydranencephaly are conscious because all human beings have a spiritual soul and it is by virtue of our soul that we are conscious.
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In their book, The Immortal Mind, Egnor and O’Leary argue that an immaterial, immortal soul best explains human consciousness, free will, and abstract thought.
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