@All About Britain Ask any eight-year-old with a laser pointer.

Hey, Dougie the Shoe! Thanks for that excellent conclusion.

One would think this to be common sense. 😄

Sadly, that's probably why they don't want to. Too much progress would be bad for their materialist sociopolitical dogma.

No because that isn't how science works!!! Science requires that you have proof and can verify your proof and said proof has to be able to replicated. We can't study non physical things what you want us to study souls.

non-physical does not mean non-material. he was referring to electromagnetism. science, by the nature of science, cannot study what we cannot interact with.

@@Skyfoogle- Is it possible that we can still observe what we cannot interact with? If I wanted to do a study on spontaneous healing for example I could still gather evidence for this phenomenon from the before and after. From there I could survey if there was any common correlations such as the person receiving prayer or having a particular spiritual experience. This phenomenon is quite common and has been observed and medically documented. There a person could examine if they can rule out coincidence for all or part of their sample. Perhaps a criterion for what constitutes a miracle might be established. For example if the event had a low probability and was accompanied by an intelligence or purpose. If for example you were praying for protection as a home invader entered your house and then was struck by a meteorite in the head while trying to take aim to shoot you. Still the question remains “Is that odd or is that God?” Perhaps there’s a statistical significance to justify the use of prayer. But we’re talking about actually doing the investigation. Is the purist materialist going to do actual science and try to disprove that materialism is all there is? Probably not even though their own minds and thoughts are not just a domino effect down the line of the Big Bang. Otherwise why would they think arguing with Creationism makes any difference since the Creationist is nothing more than a product of time and chance outside of their control set into motion by an explosion of time, energy and matter. But how the materialist believes borrows from the Creationist belief in free will. Since we can’t even have Materialism without Intelligent Design and the concept of mind it’s impossible to account for everything starting from pure naturalistic causes. So what purpose does it serve to force ourselves to try and understand everything through naturalistic logic when it’s insane to presuppose that the mind we use to understand the universe is itself an accident?

So we just blindly follow Creationist dogma?

One man's opinion. Atheism is increasing throughout the world so don't get too excited

Yes. NDE's that have included veridical perception, point toward and underline the fact that we are not our brains and that consciousness survives death and goes somewhere else after biological death. Some heaven/ dimension or reality is where we seem to travel after physical death of the body.

@@philosopher0076 I'm curious about #3 where Mr. Egnor says there are no "intellectual seizures," however, there are cases of "acquired savant syndrome" where a person develops profound mathematical or musical abilities following a brain injury.

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Yeah, agree. Actually, it is obvious..."simple for the simple".

he explains how certain things the brain does are incredibly well localized, he then says certain things the brain does are less obviously well localized (which isn't 'quite true as electrical stimulation of small parts of the brain can make you feel emotion for one example) and says this is evidence for Dualism. Think about it, this doesn't prove anything, let allow our minds are made out of something bizarre that is immaterial and we have no evidence for.

​@@davidjellyman7006 You betray a materialistic mindset when you say, “… our minds are made out of something bizarre that is immaterial …” The point of this presentation is that our minds are not “made out of” anything. Thatʼs what “immaterial” means. “Immaterial” is not some other type of material; it means “no material involved.”

As CLEARLY documented, there IS anti-matter. What there ISN'T is anything "paranormal", "supernatural", "spiritual" or "miraculous", which is why NEVER A PENNY of this money has ever been handed out: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prizes_for_evidence_of_the_paranormal

Absolutly.

I receive no information from your post, I guess the universal mind has blown a fuse.

That you noted it proves you did.

Why is it so difficult to understand that information lives in the abstract world of process and process is simply the behavior of matter? That mind isn't matter is abundantly obvious but that mind is the process of matter should seem equally obvious. Mind is abstract, immaterial. So is process but process is "of" matter so the assertion that mind is of matter in the same way should not cause any confusion. How it happens, well, that takes a pretty thick book to even begin to explain. Here's one that takes a pretty good shot at it... "Godel, Escher, Bach". Read it and you'll be in pretty good shape for understanding how.

I agree, but you wont convince an evolutionary Biologists

I wish I had free will -- I could lose 40 pounds! LOL! JK. Actually, come to think, I need Free Won't.... Blessings, E.C.

YES!!!! I love that part! For me, the evidence he shares quite literally substantiates the verse from the Bible, Love the Lord thy GOD with all thy Soul all thy Heart and all Thy MIND! Also the last 2 sections clearly edify this point =) Cheers!

If you read the Bible for yourself you will learn the truth about everthing. It tells you not only did the universe have a beginning, it tells you who made it and how He made it. Everything detectable is made from that which is undetectable (Scientists call it nothing 😂) Jesus spoke everything into existence, that's why they can't find anything. Prophecy proves the divinity of Jesus Christ. For 8 prophecies to happen by chance is mathematically impossible. The Old Testament prophesied over 300 events that Jesus fulfilled in His lifetime. Only God knows the end from the beginning. The Bible tells you that and the prophecies prove that. So no more proof needed. A simple example of the truth of the Bible that everyone can understand and no deny is, there are mountains, valleys, springs and pathways under the sea. How could anyone know that 4500 years ago. The man who discovered them read the Bible and believed. All Bible prophecies come to pass exactly as prophesied and that is historical FACT. Maranatha

Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes or Plato's divided line. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Homology is dual to co-homology -- mathematics. Reducing the number of dimensions or states is a syntropic process -- homology, hypervolumes become volumes which become surfaces or planes, planes become lines and lines become points which are zero dimensional. Increasing the number of dimensions or states is an entropic process -- co-homology, points become lines, lines become planes, planes become volumes and volumes become hypervolumes. Syntropy (prediction) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics. From a converging, convex or syntropic perspective everything looks divergent, concave or entropic -- the 2nd law of thermodynamics. All observers have a localized or syntropic perspective -- a focused attention. My syntropy is your entropy and your syntropy is my entropy -- duality. Duality creates reality. "Always two there are" -- Yoda.

Ahh, but evolutionists/atheists need materialism or thier theories become obsolete.

@@jagdtiger9287 No. Science is the intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behaviour of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment. Science is by definition materialistic.

Because we're programmed to do it just like all many other animals higher who navigate their environment using their minds to make decisions that aid in their survival and often their comfort.

Maybe that is why he kept on stressing the concept of dualism; meaning that our mind is the result of two things. The physical brain and then something else embedded within the brain (our soul? Our true intellect?).

My understanding on these concepts is that the brain could be looked at more as a receiver than a producer. If you damage a radio, it may not work, or static, etc but the signal itself is still out there and fine... Just can't be picked up properly by the radio when it's damaged. So brain damage would do the same.. The signal would not be received properly any more and therefore... Well, static..

Niether have I. It's a very good point to consider.

Is it free-want or free-won't. The caption show the latter but I think it is the former. What do you think??

Oh look.. someone who actually understands how science works. First comment out of 100.

So in other words people must become experiment subjects to satisfy your ego. There are already many experiments done on humans, why do you need even more? What will that change? If you use drugs, the main functions of brain are going to trash. Any drug paralyzes the brain and keeps you in a state of dream, halusination etc. That has been done in previous years, from people that did not respect human rights, and you call for another similar experiment, instead of reading the conclusions of these people conclusions. Where or when will this experimental stage will stop? When will your ego is going to be satisfied? Why do you people want to be cruel to other people? How about if I'd take you and experiment on you, would you like to be my experiment subject thus, to make my own conclusions? Are you people mad on something. or someone?

meaning is all decoded inside our brains.

That would be complete minimization of the human experience IMHO.

Mind (the internal soul, syntropy) is dual to matter (the external soul, entropy) -- Descartes or Plato's divided line. Teleological physics (syntropy) is dual to non-teleological physics (entropy). Homology is dual to co-homology -- mathematics. Reducing the number of dimensions or states is a syntropic process -- in homology, hypervolumes become volumes which become surfaces or planes, planes become lines and lines become points which are zero dimensional. Increasing the number of dimensions or states is an entropic process -- in co-homology, points become lines, lines become planes, planes become volumes and volumes become hypervolumes. Syntropy (prediction) is dual to increasing entropy -- the 4th law of thermodynamics. From a converging, convex or syntropic perspective everything looks divergent, concave or entropic -- the 2nd law of thermodynamics. All observers have a localized or syntropic perspective -- a focused attention. My syntropy is your entropy and your syntropy is my entropy -- duality. Duality creates reality. "Always two there are" -- Yoda.

Nobody argues that the brain is irrelevant to thought or our physical expression of thought. Quite the opposite. Brain damage, like a broken computer can severely limit the minds ability (will/intentions/thoughts) to communicate or access physically stored information. However, a perfectly functioning computer won't be sufficient to act willfully, intend or know about anything. That requires a mind. Same for a brain. It's a conduit, not the source of higher ordered intelligence. It can store information, but cannot be the source of information. If your brain is 'turned off' (disabled) by anesthesia, you cannot store memories in the brain.

@@JimCastleberry But what IS the mind? What makes the 'mind' able to BE a mind and make 'free' will decisions that a physical entity can't? That to me is the bugaboo in the whole issue. People are quick with the, 'oh computers can't have free will and the physical can't produce a mind.' But so far...except the religious types, no one has an explanation for how the mind (that is not physical) can 'think' and have 'free will.' In fact no one has been able to explain how anything can have free will except to assert it without explanation. And if someone can assert it without explanation. then I am just as justified to assert that it is physical even if I can't explain it.

If you have a television in a room and smash it with a hammer or jab a needle through some of its vital circuitry, the picture and perhaps sound will be affected...blurred, jagged, crooked, fuzzed, distorted, unclear, incomplete. Yet, is the movie signal which the television received and delivered on the screen and through the speakers fuzzy, distorted, incomplete? No, it is in tact 100%. In fact, even if you unplugged the television from the power receptacle on the wall and the screen went blank and the sound stopped, did the movie being transmitted through the air stop or become incomplete? No. The brain is a filter for consciousness and not the creator of consciousness. In fact, there have been cases of children born without a brain...yet they still smiled, reacted to other people and demonstrated a " personality " and emotion. Further, there have been endless documented cases in medical research of "Terminal Lucidity ". Patients with end stage Alzheimer's as one example have been in hospitals on their deathbed and suddenly sat up, became totally lucid, began to speak coherently and name every nurse, family member and friend standing around their bed, and then spoke of relatives long passed dead who came to " see them " and said they would be returning soon to take them " home ". These people then layed back down and often within hours or late the same night, passed away quietly. FYI.

An activity of a brain.

Daniel Doucet : I see it as a byproduct.

Yes!!!!

you really don't understand: the 'mind' is your councious activity in the perspective of your own experience as a subject. You cannot take away from the mind your subjective perspective as a sentient being and a thinker

How could this be explained?

have you done you statement in a lab and testing it?

I was thinking something similar. That is it possible that higher thought IS ensconced in material aspects of our brains and physiology but ... we just do not yet have the; understanding, knowledge, Skills, and measurement capability to monitor those activities? This is Sam Harris' refutation of the dualist argument, that these higher "thoughts" are indeed material but ... we just don't have the technical capability of proving it. While this next statement of course proves nothing ... my gut tells me Harris is incorrect and the Aristotleans are right.Effectively, this video discussion is similar to others and dancing around the same concepts as those tackling the nature of consciousness. There are certain VERY important aspects of "being" that are not material and are simply never going to be explainable entirely by rational \ scientific means.

Joshua Veltman The intelligence of the body has been overlooked. Not even considered. Perhaps I missed it.

Then what about the example of brain dead people being capable of responding to higher thought and even being capable of doing simple math? If they are vegatables, brain dead completely, even if it was localized neural networks, they wouldn't be able to maintain the complex order required to do higher thinking if the individuals brain effeciency was comparable to a cabbage. I would you ask if you had paused the video at the first example or if you went through them all. The hemispherical cutting in half was also quite a profound experiment, where higher thinking isn't impaired even if the brains were split in half. How then are the two brains communicating?

If it's distributed, how can it remain in tact after a surgery like severing the corpus callosum?