Batthyány also expressed concern that a non-material/spiritual understanding of topics like terminal lucidity risks being taken over today by New Age nonsense.
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In the discussion with Batthyány, Egnor suggested that people who inexplicably become more lucid near death are drawing closer to the light of God.
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Neither shortage of oxygen nor the presence of relatives account for the sudden release from confusion or dementia.
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Egnor continued to reference the scientific research at the foundation of his talk and repeatedly challenged his questioners.
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Serious research on terminal lucidity will immensely damage the sort of materialism that Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker champions.
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Pundits and politicians alike are tempted by the idea that, if there are no higher powers or greater realities to answer to, they can force people to fulfil their visions with impunity.
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Shermer told Mind Matters News after the event that he would bump up his credence in the existence of souls from 1% to 2% out of 99%.
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He sees words like “mind” and “soul” as just linguistic placeholders until we have a fully material explanation for how we function.
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Egnor thinks that the strongest evidence that the mind is not merely the brain comes from epilepsy and split brain research.
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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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Near-death experiences are challenging — not science — but the materialist presumption that has dominated for many decades in science.
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The reason medical researchers now take NDEs seriously is a growing body of evidence that can’t just be tossed off with a simple explanation.
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Dr. Egnor agreed, observing that the United States seems to be losing its ability to hold respectful disagreement. Post responded by quoting Abraham Lincoln’s call for unity
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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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Michael Egnor adds that classical philosophers defined love as “willing the good of the other,” not merely liking someone and Stephen Post agrees.
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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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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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Suggesting a trend, a new book which aims to dethrone materialism in science, has been selling well in Europe and coming out shortly in English.
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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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AI can never be more than a machine; the human mind soars far above any machine model. Be nice to your robot. But don’t think she is human.
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