Michele Pasin / Quotes

Remaining mysteries don't justify souls

Those who hold on to the idea that something other than a functioning brain is required to create persons with a sense of self are simply not looking the evidence in the face. Just because some mysteries remain, that does not mean that everything is a mystery, and it certainly doesn’t mean we are justified in appealing to other mysteries, like souls, to plug the gaps in our…

Saved 23 April 2015

#soul #brain #evidence #mystery

Mysterians and the mystery of consciousness

Mysterians think that consciousness is a mystery that cannot be solved by our existing scientific methods; and some mysterians think we will never be able to…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #mystery #consciousness #brain

I am everything I behold

“People may sense internal organs and physiological processes usually kept out of consciousness.” That was exactly what had just happened to me when I felt I…

The Acid Diaries (Christopher Gray) #perception #brain #consciousness #soul #nondualism

Panpsychism: consciousness is everywhere

Pan-psychism is the view that consciousness is everywhere. This view is seldom stated explicitly, but it is implicit in several authors particularly among the…

Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle) #consciousness #mystery #universe

Red herring (definition)

Red herring is an idiom that refers to a logical fallacy that misleads or detracts from the actual issue.[1] It is also a literary device that leads readers…

Red Herring - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia #fiction #readers #mystery

Science and religion

Both Feynman and Tyson seem to agree that the scientific and Creationist methods for discovering “truth,” whatever that may be, are basically incompatible…

Richard Feynman On Religion, Science, The Search For Truth & Our Willingness To Live With Doubt - Open Culture #truth #answers #meaning #ignorance #mystery

Atheism

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling…

Carl Sagan - Wikipedia #evidence #cause #subjects