Immortality of the Soul Is a Reasonable Belief
Michael Egnor and Denyse O'Leary
Michael Egnor and Denyse O'Leary
Quote:We can defend the immortality of the human soul by pointing to verifiable accounts of near-death experiences. But in themselves, such experiences only tell us that the mind can continue to function when the brain is clinically dead. That could mean one of two things: Perhaps it means that the mind can survive without the brain but only for a period of time.
Even physical death, as we are learning, does not occur all at once; it takes literally days for everything in a human body to die. But what if the mind can function independently of the brain forever because it belongs to a class of entities that are immortal by their very nature? What if the soul not only does not die but cannot die?
'Historically, we may regard materialism as a system of dogma set up to combat orthodox dogma...Accordingly we find that, as ancient orthodoxies disintegrate, materialism more and more gives way to scepticism.'
- Bertrand Russell
- Bertrand Russell
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