21. Information Science Topic: Consciousness
about future
emergent-physicalist attempts to account for both mental images and subjective
experience/qualia.
While the topic of
consciousness invariably shows up in conversations about human agency and
causation, a particular commitment
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22. Divine Action Topic: Meyering, Theo C. Mind Matters: Physicalism and t...
the Mental: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human Action."
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link | Printer-friendly | Feedback | Contributed by: CTNS /Vatican Observatory
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23. Divine Action Topic: Neuroscience
Mental: A Nonreductive Physicalist Account of Human
Action."
Peacocke,
Arthur. The Sound of Sheer Silence: How Does God
Communicate with Humanity?"
Peters, Ted.
Resurrection
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24. Divine Action Topic: Peters, Ted. Resurrection of the Very Embodied So...
body and, second, that this
physicalist interpretation so undermines the doctrine of the immortal soul that
the Christian view of eternal salvation becomes counter- scientific.
Peters points out that until
recently theologians have not been
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25. Ecology Topic: Conclusion
Conclusion
So the
physicalist 's part is it depends on the brain. But here's
the non-reductive part in a nutshell:
Those mental constructions that involve language make a real causal
difference in the world. We can see
that this is
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26. Ecology Topic: The Distinctiveness of Being Human
But again,
a non-reductive physicalist says there's no need to postulate the addition of a
new kind of entity, a mind or soul. Rather, what we have is more complexity and
specific organization for new functions.
We can
guess from looking at
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27. Ecology Topic: Reductionism and Non-Reductionism
that for the non-reductive
physicalist we're not going to introduce any new non-physical forces or
entities, vital forces or psychic energy.
So how can the causal properties of these higher-level things really
matter? And how can it not be the
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28. Evolution and Providence Topic: Robert Russell - Presentation
Fall
A Non-Reductive Physicalist Account of
Human Nature
Big Bang
Cosmology and Theology
Evolution and Continuous
Creation
Quantum
Physics and Theology - Index
The Meaning of Genesis 1
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29. Neuroscience Topic: Conclusion
Conclusion
So the physicalist 's part is it depends on the brain. But here's the non-reductive part in a nutshell:Those mental constructions that involve language make a real causal difference in the world.We can see that this is
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30. Neuroscience Topic: The Distinctiveness of Being Human
But again, a non-reductive physicalist says there's no need to postulate the addition of a new kind of entity, a mind or soul. Rather, what we have is more complexity and specific organization for new functions.
We can guess from looking at
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