Neuroscience and the Soul - Full Interview with J.P. Moreland

J.P. Moreland (Biola University) comments on the existence of the soul, the nature of consciousness, and the relevance of neuroscience to questions about human nature, spirituality, life after death, and mental life.

[deborah]

A lot of people think comments don’t matter but I’m a real person asking All viewers who believe to please pray for me in my desperate situation. I’m am weakened and unable to fix this. I believe in the power of prayer and need your faith, please, help me. Thank you for caring.

[SteveJudyKranz]

Physical fitness is always emphasized as beneficial yet we so easily overlook the benefits of soul fitness.

[barnythepreacher]

Has anyone addressed this problem? If every mental process is the result of chemical reactions in the brain, then the chemical action must precede before the mental process. The various chemicals in the brain must first be generated to activate the neural process before the brain can think or even articulate a word. How does the chemical know beforehand what it wanted to say! It may only be nano seconds delay but if the mind is the process of the brain and the brain is activated by chemicals, and there is a time lag between them, then all reactions must have been determined before the event.
I hope this makes sense, I've tried to simplify the argument otherwise it would take enormous space on this site. Maranatha ><>

[mac]

I took a number of courses under JP. My mind is still blown.

[whitethread]

I'd like to know when we aquired a soul..as far back when we were apes or primitive man or modern man.. Will we meet all our ancestors including our ape-like cousins when we die

[DrBrianSavage]

Belief in the soul is delusional. Consciousness is an emergent property of biological processes.

[daithiocinnsealach]

But he has an unshakable faith that there is such a thing as a soul. Not sure how much science you can really do when you are precommitted to an unproven assumption.

[Josdamale]

There is nothing here of substance, just defining what people may believe or what the Bible could be saying.

[carmeister_]

He's an awesome I met him and he was very gracious God bless you brother JP!

[solideogloria]

people believe in a materialistic world until their car got stolen.

[JRRodriguez-nupo]

Hardware is of a different category than software, even a computer cannot be reduced to materialism since information is not physical. Information can be mathematically quantitated, it can be represented by arrangements in matter, but it is not matter nor reducible to matter. What is a physical law? What is mathematics? All these are real, quantifiable, interact with the physical but are not physical. Information exists, but is not matter. Thus materialism is inadequate to explain nature, let alone the spiritual.

[superman]

Sorry, but there is a great big rabbit in the room here. If human minds are immaterial, surely animal minds are immaterial. So, then - when an animal dies, what happens to its mind? Does its mind die? If so, what’s different about human minds that means they somehow survive physical death? Such a difference is not even remotely hinted at in this video. Huge omission.

[wickedlovely]

It’s hard to rap my head around he idea that something material can be come aware of itself.. like a rocks or minerals, I think back to a seminar Dr James tour gave at Waterloo, where he goes on to say no matter how much money you get funded or how many intelligent people you have, you cannot create a cell without DNA, and yet this happened by pure luck and chance. Regardless of how much time is given rocks and minerals never become self aware.

[sevenswords]

NDE study has been proving a soul for years.

[robertgoode]

I consider myself a Christian, I try to follow Christ's teachings but I'm not perfect, none of us are. I do not go to or belong to and brick and mortar church nor am I q member of any particular religion. I thonk those who believe God made everything in 6 days need to ask, was that in our solar days or in what a day is to God? I don't believe it was our day and who knows how long a day is for God? Also man and his creation, I believe in creation but I also believe in science, in evolution. With an open mind and not taking the Bible word for word an exact book of everything because we don't know. If we go simply by the Bible's timeline the everything is only 6, 000 years old give or take a few decades or centuries but science tells us the universe and the earth and stars are billions of years old. Creation and evolution fit together when we realize the Bible was written by man thinking in man's intellect thousands of years ago and that's understanding that the Bible most Christians, all really is not God's word it's man's word written down as his feeble intellect could understand. There are all kinds of versions of the Bible, many people use the King James version and think it's the word of God. No its not, it's the word of King James if England who had the Latin version translated into English and that was a loose translation that was what the King wanted it to be. Faith and belief in God and Jesus are in each of our minds, we are our own church, when we wake up and open our eyes and look outside at the earth, sky, trees, everything, that is God's church. Science and evolution fit together perfectly.

[Beencouraged]

Who is neuroscience to respect as an authority concerning the soul ? The soul, is clearly immaterial, science deals with the material world. I couldn’t care less what science has to say concerning the soul, if it contradicts what the scripture has deemed to be so. Nothing left to say here.

[aaronlair]

The mirror-like alternating shots compliment the man's words nicely, I think.

[hauteswan]

People don't know that many ideals and things in society today came from Christian thinking and values.

[MMAGUY]

Can anyone explain this to me if we have a soul and I get hit on the head I lose consciousness if consciousness is being produced by the soul, why do I lose it and anesthesia can make you lose consciousness to

[holytrashify]

I like the violin music in between your talking