13Jun 2026 by Post

“Mind as an Illusion” Makes No Sense

Alex Rosenberg, brain, Carlo Rovelli, Cheshire Cat, David A. Oakley, Duke University, eliminative materialism, folk psychology, George Orwell, Harry G. Frankfurt, illusion, intelligentsia, Joe Gough, Michael Egnor, mind, naturalism, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Patricia Churchland, Peter L. Halligan, philosophers, scientific reasoning, The Immortal Mind, Thomas Metzinger, University of Mainz
Philosophers of mind using their minds to prove that there is no mind do not help the credibility of their discipline. Source
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03Jun 2026 by Post

Why Meaning Overcomes the Materialist View

air, Bible, communication, earth, equations, Faith & Science, food, Genesis, George MacDonald, humans, illusion, Intelligent Design, laws of nature, life, materialism, materialistic worldview, matter, Meaning, movements, particles, perception, Periodic Table, physics, reality, Stephen L. Talbott, The New Atlantis, theism, universe
The quasi-scientific abstraction that glibly asserts our being “nothing more” than particle interactions is as wrong as it is right. Source
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02Sep 2024 by Post

Biophysicist Proposes “Spiritual Particle”

beetroots, consciousness, Daniel Dennett, Darwinian evolution theory, Darwinism, Douglas Youvan, eliminationism, Energy, Evolution, Galen Strawson, illusion, matter, natural selection, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, panpsychism, Physics, Earth & Space, psychology, random mutation, snakes, spiritual particle, universe
It has, Douglas Youvan suggests, a dual nature, interacting with both matter and consciousness. Source
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27Dec 2023 by Post

No. 6 Story of 2023: On Free Will, ChatGPT4 Blows Away Atheist Sam Harris

atheists, Being as Communion, Belief, brain, ChatGPT4, consciousness, Culture & Ethics, decision-making, determinism, free choice, free will, illusion, irony, Judgment, mind, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, Persuasion, reality, Reasoning, Sam Harris, The Design Inference, Winston Ewert, YouTube videos
Yes, the irony here is palpable, and I’ve long been critical of Harris’s view of free will as an illusion. Source
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25Oct 2023 by Post

Accounts from “After Death” Defeat Materialist Contentions About the Soul

After Death, Andrew McDiarmid, Angel Studios, autoscopy, death, documentary, Evidence of the Afterlife, Faith & Science, Heaven, Hell, ID The Future, illusion, Jeffrey Long, life, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, Podcast, resuscitation, soul, theatrical release, tickets
Ahead of the Friday theatrical release, our colleague Andrew McDiarmid talked with Dr. Jeffrey Long, a cancer doctor who appears in the film. Source
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08Sep 2022 by Post

Can Red Have “Redness” if No Self Perceives It?

apes, chimpanzees, Closer to Truth, genomes, human exceptionalism, illusion, inner feeling, Julian Baggini, lichens, neurons, neuroscience, Neuroscience & Mind, origin of life, philosophy, qualia, red, redness, religion, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, rocks, science, scientific explanation, self
Is not the fact that we are having these discussions the best available evidence that we are not “just overgrown apes or undergrown apes”? Source
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26Sep 2020 by Post

Intention, Agency, Even in “Simple” Life Is No Illusion

agency, bacteria, biology, illusion, Intelligent Design, intention, life, Life Sciences, Michael Denton, neutrophils, physiology, Purpose and Desire, Robert Crowther, Scott Turner, State University of New York College of Environmental Sciences, The Miracle of the Cell
As biologist Scott Turner explains, the appearance is not false but very real, a fact from whose profound implications most scientists veil their eyes. Source
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