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Physicists: Math Shows That the Universe Can’t Be a Simulation

The physicists argue that pure information underlies the universe of matter and energy, as a Platonic realm of ideas

We seem a long way now from the once-dominant science view of eliminative materialism in which even human consciousness was not considered real.

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An Ancient Argument for the Existence of the Human Soul

Sixteen hundred years ago, Augustine tells a friend about a dream a skeptical local doctor had, where a sharp youth asked him some pointed questions

One issue that arose in that age of controversy was how anything like a human mind could function without a body?

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