Neurological Disease: Dignity, Free Will, and a Reason For Hope | Paul LaPenna, DO
The Thomistic Institute
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Is the Soul Superfluous?
Many neuro scientists would say yes, and endorse some form of reductive physicalism in which the mind is identical to the brain. So your mind is just a kind of gilatinous material between your ears that weighs about three point three pounds,. Is a claim that theres humans are purely material. Matter does not have these properties. Therefore, a person cannot be purely material. There's no subjective experience within matter. Nothing what it's like to be a water bottle or a water molecule. But anywaysa, aristotle and aquinas, they mean something very different by the soul, ok? They don't mean what descartes means, that is, a separate, immaterial
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