Irreducible Mind: Toward a Psychology for the 21st Century

The book demonstrates empirically that reductive materialism, which holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes in the brain, is incomplete and false.

The authors present evidence for phenomena such as extreme psychophysical influence, memory, psychological automatisms, near-death experiences, genius-level creativity, and mystical states of consciousness.

They advocate for an alternative 'transmission' or 'filter' theory of mind/brain relations, originally proposed by F.W.

H.

Myers and developed by William James, which views the mind as an entity independent of the brain or body.