#38 – “Neurotheology’s Wrong Conclusion About What We Are”: Chapter 4 of Have We Lost Our Minds?

In this episode, we continue our series by engaging Chapter 4 of Stan’s new book, Have We Lost Our Minds?: Neuroscience, Neurotheology, the Soul, and Human Flourishing.

We discuss:

• Why neurotheologians are mistaken about our true nature.
• Why it isn’t possible to reduce mental properties to physical events.
• How we should understand our unity through time.
• How the modal argument helps us understand identity.
• Why non-reductive physicalism or “emergence” is of no help to the physicalist position.
• What a “brute fact” is.
• What did Dallas Willard meant when he talked about the nature of the body.
• Thoughts on human flourishing and why it matters.

Resources and Citations:

• Find out more about Have We Lost Our Minds?
• Get the introduction to the book for free on the Global Scholars website.
• A printable group discussion guide can be found here.
• P. Moreland, “Substance Dualism and the Unity of Consciousness”: The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism
• Gary W. Moon, Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower
• Thinking Christianly Episode #6: What is Human Flourishing and How Do We Achieve it?