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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The transgender movement, like the teacher-driven war on math, has embraced the Skeptics’ own approach to reality and now uses it for ITS purposes.
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If the evidence suggests that aspects of the human mind are immaterial, what does it mean to say that “science” says it can’t be true?
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It is quite possible to seek good ends (children) by bad means (their industrial manufacture). That’s why Christian ethics are needed.
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One thing that stood out was the commenters’ appreciation of a cordial discussion of often-controversial topics.
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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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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 fate of consciousness studies may depend on how committed researchers are to finding the facts vs. how committed they are to protecting a materialist view.
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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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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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Many of us grew up with “Neanderthal!” used as a term of abuse for a stupid person. A 2021 study from the University of Tübingen and others, dusted off at ScienceAlert, paints quite a different picture, in connection with Neanderthals’ manufacture of birch tar. The tar from burnt birch wood can be used as glue, insect repellent, and antiseptic. It can be scraped from a fire naturally or it can be produced in a controlled way. Which method Neanderthals used says something about the development of their culture. The study authors, Patrick Schmidt et al., went to a lot of potentially messy trouble to try to answer the question: Some think of black tar as a happy accident that Neanderthals Read More ›