Irreducible mind
by Edward F. Kelly, Emily Williams Kelly, Adam Crabtree, Alan Gauld, Michael Grosso, Bruce Greyson · first published 2006
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Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience & philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of mind & consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication. The present volume, however, demonstrates empirically that this reductive materialism isn't only incomplete but false. The authors systematically marshal evidence for a variety of psychological phenomena that are extremely difficult, & in some cases clearly impossible, to account for in conventional physicalist terms. Topics addressed include phenomena o
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…saw used to open her skull, a tool which was not wheeled into the room until after her brain death had been induced. My abridged retelling of this most dramatic account comes from my memory of the book Irreducible Mind [1], which presents a vast corpus of evidence that the mind does not originate in the brain. The authors propose a different theory, the Filter or Transmission Theory of Consciousness originally proposed…
on “Gunshot victims to be suspended between life and death” ↗…lying.” There is plenty of evidence out there that points to something odd going on; the challenge lies in getting more skeptics to seriously evaluate it. Some HNer years ago turned me onto the book Irreducible Mind, whose last hundred pages or so is a bibliography of evidence for this kind of thing provided by people who say “I don’t believe it, but I can’t explain it.” But a lot of that evidence comes from skeptics…
on “A DMT trip 'feels like dying' – and scientists now agree” ↗You're not likely to find much support on this forum for these ideas. For those that have interest, the book Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century is a well-written treatise on the topic. A gentler step in that direction is to see what Michael Levin and his lab are up to. He is looking for (one aspect of)…
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