The two disciplines of neuroscience and philosophy must work together to better understand what it means to be conscious, to choose, and to be human.
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Green argues for humility because, while neuroscience is powerful and rapidly advancing, it may never explain the full reality of the human person.
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The relational model has practical consequences. It considers flourishing as less about “me” and more about “we.”
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The genius of the human mind requires an external, intelligent source beyond the material world.
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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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Ewert predicts that, while humans will get better at building artificial intelligence systems, we will never be able to match ourselves.
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The total space-time information capacity of the universe falls significantly short of the ability to generate meaningful text of only a few hundred letters.
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If information is “the relational glue that holds reality together,” the mind–body problem can be reframed in a more satisfactory way.
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For reasons that are not yet clear, blind people can see during a near-death experience and details have been confirmed. Habermas relates some cases.
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It’s exceedingly unlikely, Prof. Habermas argues, that all these cases result from misperception deception, coincidences, or mistakes.
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Hylomorphism, derived from ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, unites the sou with the body without denying its immateriality or immortality.
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Neuroscientist Benjamin Libet was skeptical of claims that he had disproved free will, so he continued to experiment and found that he hadn’t after all.
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The materialist philosophers ground war on “substance dualism” is really a war on what all human beings innately believe.
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The current dogma that pervades neuroscience is established by intellectual pressure rather than solid scientific evidence.
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Just what will neuroscientists do if — even in their own minds — they do not succeed in showing that the mind is merely what the brain does?
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Great neuroscientists weren’t dualists in spite of the evidence but because of it. Their research really did not support a materialist view of the mind.
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In a chapter of Minding the Brain (2023), Cristi L. S. Cooper looks at the current state of neuroscience research on free will
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In his chapter on near-death experiences in Minding the Brain, Gary Habermas discusses cases where people accurately witnessed events while clinically dead.
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