IRREDUCIBLE MIND

IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 5): How Can Someone With Partial or No Brain Have Consciousness?

By Mark Tapscott / March 20, 2024

There has been a raft of Near-Death Experiences (NDE) reported in recent decades and those reports have generated a growing body of clinical analyses seeking to account for them that directly challenge the idea that consciousness is created by our brains. It’s not just from NDEs, however, from which significant evidence that consciousness does not…

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IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 4): And Then There’s Quantum Biology

By Mark Tapscott / March 19, 2024

You’ve no doubt heard of Quantum Mechanics (QM), but did you know there is a growing field of scientific inquiry that applies QM to biology? Naturally, it is otherwise known as Quantum Biology (QB) and it appears to explain a lot that traditional biology can’t. Things like how birds that migrate back and forth over…

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IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 3): Why Materialists Can’t Fully Explain Consciousness

By Mark Tapscott / March 18, 2024

Imagine for a moment that you have the unique ability to scan the left-hand page of an open book with your left eye and the right-hand page with your right eye. Would that be amazing? Believe it or not, Kim Peek, the man on whom the 1988 movie “Rain Man” was based, could do that.…

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IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 2): What Consciousness and Colors Like Yellow Have in Common

By Mark Tapscott / March 17, 2024

If that headline makes no sense to you at first glance, that is precisely the point. If you had to describe for a blind person the color Yellow in such vivid terms that they would immediately recognize it if they regained sight, what would you say? See what I mean? You can relate your experience…

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IRREDUCIBLE MIND (Part 1): How Do We Get Consciousness If We’re Just Material Objects?

By Mark Tapscott / March 16, 2024

Ever hear of the “Hard Problem of Consciousness” in science? If you Google that term, you will quickly see that topping the list of unanswered questions about human beings and life is this intellectual challenge: If we are made up of nothing other than physical material, how can we also have non-material minds and thus…

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