In the YouTube comments section of a video covering evidence for consciousness not being produced by the brain, there were several comments that caught my eye. The usual cynical, uninformed lot of course, but then there were also commenters who claimed that consciousness is produced by the brain bec
A new and outstanding 18-minute YouTube video documentary has just been released, on the strong neuroscientific evidence that has accumulated for the mind being ultimately separate from and independent of the brain though closely intertwined with it during life.
Until this weekend, I knew absolutely zero about the so called "Secret Mark" or specifically, a letter from Clement of Alexandria (c.150 - c.215 AD) found copied into the back pages of Isaac Vossius' 1646 printed edition of the works of Ignatius of Antioch...
Universal determinism down to the neural level does not exist and therefore doesn't prohibit free will. Why are so many physicists and other materialists wrong about there being no free will? At the neural molecular level research has shown that brain processes are not deterministic at all. There is
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[color=#000000][size=large]Memories of near-death experiences (NDEs) are recalled as “realer” than memories of other real or imagined events. Given their rich phenomenology, emotionality and consequentiality, it was hypot
Idealism and panpsychism are apparently having a sort of resurgence today amongst at least a few science practitioners, but interactive dualism is still shied away from like the plague since it is supremely politically incorrect in academia. I think the hands-on research experience of some of the ea
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