Quote:For over a century, neuroscience has assumed that consciousness is generated by the brain. But what if this assumption is wrong? In this episode of Mind-Body Solution, Dr. Tevin Naidu is joined by Professor Edward F. Kelly - co-author of Irreducible Mind, Beyond Physicalism, Consciousness Unbound (and many more) — to examine the empirical and conceptual evidence that consciousness cannot be fully explained by brain activity alone.
Drawing on decades of research across neuroscience, psychology, linguistics, psychiatry, and psychical research, Kelly argues that:
• Memory cannot be localized to neural storage
• Consciousness persists under clinical unconsciousness
• Psi phenomena are empirically real and theoretically disruptive
• Physicalism fails both scientifically and philosophically
The conversation explores near-death experiences, dissociation, extraordinary cognition, process philosophy, William James, Whitehead, idealism, dual-aspect monism, and what a post-physicalist science of mind might look like.
This is not speculation - it is a sober assessment of where the data actually lead.
'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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