Two Neuroscientists on Life, Death, Eternity, and What Really Matters

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Lee Warren interviews Michael Egnor on his book. It's a lively and accessible chat about how the human mind is not simply the brain and can even survive death. Source
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Egnor: The Soul Has No Off Switch

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"You’re not going to hear from a mathematics department at the local university that the number 8 passed away yesterday." Source
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Soul Survives Death? ER Doc Faces Skepticism

Baram Elahi, brain function, cardiac arrest, clinical death, Closer to Truth, consciousness, death, doctors, Faith & Science, John Eccles, Lord Kelvin, Lucid Dying, near-death experiences, Neuroscience & Mind, Nobel Prize, physics, post-death consciousness, Psyche, Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Sam Parnia, skepticism, soul
In discussion with Robert Lawrence Kuhn, Dr. Sam Parnia stuck to his clearly defined evidence, avoiding religious digressions. Source
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A Philosopher Investigates Near-Death Experiences

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Monika Mandoki did not experience efforts to get her canceled. That may be for several reasons. Source
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Gödel’s Defense of the Immortality of the Soul

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Gödel (1906–1978) is best known for destroying the materialist atheist hope that mathematics could be self-consistent without any external origin. Source
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Accounts from “After Death” Defeat Materialist Contentions About the Soul

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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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Are Near-Death Experiences Science Now?

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The laughter has died down? Good. It was modern medicine — not religion — that created the hard evidence for credible near-death experiences. Source
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Study: Brain Is Still Active After Death

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Obviously, these experiences point to something that is irrelevant to claims about evolution. Source
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