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#mystery
Mind: A Brief Introduction (John R. Searle)
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 understand how consciousness could be explained by brain processes. Thomas Nagel5 thinks it might be possible one day to…
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 mysterians who think that if we are going to explain consciousness in terms of microprocesses, then, somehow or other…
Red Herring - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
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 or characters towards a false conclusion, often used in mystery or detective fiction.
Richard Feynman On Religion, Science, The Search For Truth & Our Willingness To Live With Doubt - Open Culture
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. Says Feynman: “There are very remarkable mysteries… but those are mysteries I want to investigate without knowing the…
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
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…
Not betting on eschatological resurrection
For anyone who lacks the sure faith to simply trust that things must turn out as they are described in the Bible, no matter how incoherent they may seem to us, the traditional Christian idea of the physical resurrection of the dead seems implausible, if not entirely impossible…