C. Stephen Evans - Theological Anthropology: What is Human Mind?

The nature of human mind and consciousness is one of the perennial, deep questions in philosophy. Assuming that God exists, what happens to the question? In a God-created world, what would human mind be?



C. Stephen Evans is Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Baylor University. He is one of the United States' leading experts on Søren Kierkegaard.


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[danielsayre]

I think your perspectives on free will, and the self, are very valuable. I'm glad I saw this video

[ibperson]

I’m increasingly baffled at how I could have ever fallen for physicalism/materialism. It is so obviously impossible.

[alanbrady]

The mind holds internal memory’s and our consciousness can look at all the old memories and make predictions for what’s best for us each as an individual for our future and also here and now predictions of the best ways to go forward. Although some of us live in the past and can’t stop looking at the old memories and making predictions for the future based on our old memories.

[ujjwalbhattarai]

Human mind is consciousness.
Time=everything.
Just our body was nothing before birth after death we be same.
Now we are body of consciousness which is under time limitation.

[jamesruscheinski]

Does human being have quantum wave as well as body? Could quantum wave of person bring about mind from physical brain?

[mrinaljyotichoudhury]

Can We understand a lot about human mind and consciousness using Lucid Dreaming?

[jamesruscheinski]

If the atoms in body are changing, is there some part of the body that does not change, or just the form of the body not change?

[kallianpublico]

Communication can be one way or two way: you can receive or tansmit or you can receive and transmit. Is consciousness also one way or two way? And is one way consciousness the same as two way consciousness?

[AdamRTNewman]

I'm curious as to what C. Stephen Evans would think of the anthropology underlying the Christology which *simultaneously*:
i) Asserts that Christ's human body, human soul, human spirit, human mind etc must all be non-divine created entities, otherwise Christ isn't a complete human,
ii) Asserts that the humanity of Christ is impersonal, but is personalised by the divine person of God the Son.

[soubhikmukherjee]

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come-Rabindranath Tagore.

[saliksayyar]

Journey of the Self is the basis of the philosophy of Muhammad Iqbal (1877-1938). It precedes the body and moves from stage to stage of existence

[ujjwalbhattarai]

Neither we know what was we before born nor we can think what will be future or after death.

But everything is existing in present our mind is unable to catch it. So sad.

Everything is in time just we are living in.

We are living in past present and future same time just we are unable to dictate consciousness.
When we will be able to live highly conscious life then we just can live according to our choice.
We can change our body like cloud and can live according to ours choose.

[infividsgaming]

Without consciousness everything is meaningless. So, consciousness must be the fundamental reality. Only because you are aware and conscious, you are able to experience this physical reality. Without consciousness or awareness, physical reality is meaningless.

[givememytacobell]

I have a question for you Doctor. Do you practice Lucid Dreaming?

[thehonorablejiveturkey]

How can freedom be real when you dont determine when your born or when you die

[-qu]

If you don't have internal monologue, there is no "you", you're just a body with sensory layers that store (in memory) the human experience the best way it can given the missing identity layer. You cannot achieve homeostasis without it.

[williamburts]

What does it mean to be a person ? Answer: self-awareness.

[chrisc]

There is consciousness and there is superconsciousness. Which of the two possesses free will?

[soubhikmukherjee]

Facts are many, but the truth is one-Rabindranath Tagore.

[ChuckBrowntheClown]

Self has causal powers. Something that I'm doing caused me to get hurt, by the way that I did it, I caused myself to get hurt. My usage of the car caused wear and tear and it broke.