Irreducible Mind

Irreducible Mind
Authors
Gauld, Alan & Crabtree, Adam & Grosso, Michael & Kelly, Edward F. & Kelly, Emily Williams & Greyson, Bruce
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Tags
psychology , science , philosophy , spirituality
ISBN
9781442202078
Date
2006-12-07T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.98 MB
Lang
en
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Practically every contemporary mainstream scientist presumes that all aspects of mind are generated by brain activity. We demonstrate the inadequacy of this picture by assembling evidence for a variety of empirical phenomena which it cannot explain. We further show that an alternative picture developed by F. W. H. Myers and William James successfully accommodates these phenomena, ratifies the common sense view of ourselves as causally effective conscious agents, and is fully compatible with contemporary physics and neuroscience.