The soul can seem a bit of a mystery because the popular idea of the soul, as a sort of “ghost” is not the traditional philosophical (or Christian) one.
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The fact that seizures never result in abstract reasoning implies our reason is not a material power of the body but an immaterial power of the spiritual soul.
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Consciousness is like contact lenses. It is the means by which we experience, not what we experience. Thus we can’t “find” it in the brain.
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In addition to the massive evidence from neuroscience that the intellect is an immaterial power of the mind, simple logic points to the same truth.
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The demotion of the prefrontal cortex in consciousness is remarkable in the light of other researchers’ view that it is practically what makes us human.
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Gödel’s theorem started by upending mathematics nearly a century ago by showing that it is impossible to create a mathematical Theory of Everything.
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While none of this research is decisive, the materialist paradigm is challenged by awareness in PVS. The dualist perspective better fits the evidence.
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It’s a lot to ask of one type of cell, however unique, that it be what makes humans more intelligent than chimpanzees and that it create language.
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If it takes a hundred scientists to map a cubic millimetre of a mouse’s brain, even the material world — never mind the immaterial world of the mind — is not likely to have a simple explanation.
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Many philosophers have concluded both from experience and careful consideration that mental phenomena cannot be reduced to neural mechanisms.
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Material cells can only make decisions if specifically structured to follow a blueprint with rules of engagement. Where is the blueprint?
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Whether they continue to push the boundary, or someone else does, they can only bring up so many unaccounted-for facts before it’s time for a revolution.
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Teilhard noted the same weakness in evolution theory as Thomas Nagel does today: Excluding the origin of mind and consciousness makes it at best half a theory.
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His writings caught the imagination of many religiously minded people but they seemed more profound than they really were.
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While it is quite true that the human brain is very large by animal standards, there is no simple one-on-one relationship between brain size and intelligence.
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Real-world research shows the remarkable resilience of damaged brains housing single minds. Our brains are full of complexities and exceptions to rules.
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Of his 55,000 brain stimulations that “activated complex networks,” not one generated abstract thought — implying that it is not a “product” of the brain.
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A recent research paper looks at the way minds work with what’s available, something I often encounter in my practice as a neurosurgeon.
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Darwinian evolution theory allows any state of affairs that dates to eons ago to be called “evolution” even when, as in this case, the facts imply the opposite.
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The view Murphy outlines at Closer to Truth has more in common with modern materialism than with a traditional Christian understanding of the human soul.
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