Fr. Hilbert notes that such documented lucid experiences as he recounts can hardly be the mere outcome of a dying brain shutting down.
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What he most wants to advance is open discussion in science. Science, after all, advances more from doubt than from certainty.
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Scientists form hypotheses, interpret data, and act with purpose. These activities cannot be reduced to neurons firing without undermining science itself.
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Respondents were self-selected and are probably more ideological or more personally impacted by the changes in approach.
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Trust in the science sector ebbed precisely because the establishment became intolerant of dissent and pushed ideology in the guise of pursuing knowledge.
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A properly balanced relationship with expertise won’t be restored by imposing autocratic consensus rules. “Science” really needs less hubris and more humility.
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He notes, if our brains evolved merely to help us stay alive, then it’s strange that those same mental states could invent the telescope to explore the cosmos.
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Companies, universities and almost everyone else hypes the latest advances while those who question the hype are told that they are the problem.
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Mark Twain and Michael Shermer each had an anomalous experience that he could not explain but would not deny.
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The great Catholic theologian Aquinas noted that “what happens in the working of nature is either always, or mostly, for the better,” which rules out chance.
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If consciousness is immaterial, a scientific explanation must address and include that fact. The hard problem is impossible if that fact cannot be accepted.
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Dennett may be best remembered for inadvertently helping to reduce the popularity of atheism
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Efforts to jam both feet into time have gone nowhere and are likely to continue to do so.
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Was a journal that tries to explain the origin of the unique human mind without any reference to the Mind that created the universe bound to end up here?
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Maybe we need to believe that there is a Mind behind the universe in order to provide guardrails against deeply crazy stuff claiming to be science.
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This inward journey reveals how consciousness is not only about understanding ourselves but about understanding reality itself.
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An absolute monopoly for science on truth conceals a fatal flaw. If scientific inquiry becomes corrupt or useless, we can find help from no other quarter.
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In most public emergencies, authorities attempt to stem the panic. But with COVID, it so often seemed that the panic was coming from the top. Why was that?
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Musk’s philosophy of the future: I believe it should be curiosity about the Universe – expand humanity to become a multiplanet, then interstellar, species.
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Shermer writes, “the people promulgating these woke ideas are mostly true believers” and their fervor makes it easier to convince themselves, not others.
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