Consciousness and Materialism

by Mar 8, 2014Culture, Theology

Really good stuff from a great Christian writer and wide-ranging reader and thinker, Alan Jacobs (can’t help saying it again: I loved the remarkable book Original Sin). Turns out evolutionary scientists don’t really know how consciousness is possible in a materialistic universe. Calling consciousness an “emergent property” is something of a feint.

HT: Brian Collins

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