Does Modern Neuroscience Disprove the Existence of the Soul? | Dr. Paul LaPenna

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About the speaker:
Dr. Paul LaPenna is a neurologist in Greenville, SC and is a Professor of Clinical Medicine at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Carolinas Campus. Dr. LaPenna completed his neurology residency at Indiana University School of Medicine. His skill set is focused on treatment of neurological emergencies and performing and interpreting electrophysiological studies of the brain and peripheral nervous system. He is currently the Director of Stroke at Bon Secours Mercy Health in Greenville, SC.

As an Associate Professor of Neurology, Dr. LaPenna has won numerous teaching awards, including Clinical Medicine Professor of the Neuroscience Curriculum from 2019-2022. For the 2020-2021 academic year, Dr. LaPenna was awarded Preceptor of the Year. For his care towards patients, he was elected to the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2016.

Dr. LaPenna has an interest in the relationship between science and faith—in particular, the relationship between neuroscience and the soul, neuroscience and free will, and the overreaching claims of science. In addition, Dr. LaPenna speaks on the problem of suffering and the dignity of the human person. Saint Thomas Aquinas has been a major influence in Dr. LaPenna’s intellectual and faith journey.

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[Alkemisti]

Take a sip every time he says: 'Okay'.

[joaogoncalves-tzuj]

a lot of okays but great video, this is the way to solve this materialism impregnated in our culture

[josethankachan]

Is it possible to include the video of this content too, coz its effective to watch than listen

[pollovrhd]

Hi, could you please share with me a list of books to get introduced to St Thomas Aquinas? I'm loving hearing about him but I'd love to read some introductory material.

[williammcenaney]

St. Thomas Aquinas believes each person is made up of a hum body and an immortal soul. So he says he's not his soul in his book "On Being and Essence." He also believes a disembodied, immortal human soul reasons, knows, and loves. That suggests he commits the mereological fallacy by concluding that a part of someone can do what he does.

Corruptionists will tell you that you'll stop existing when you die. Survivalists believe that you'll be at least a partial person then. Corruptionism implies that after I die, a part of me will do what I do now, which sounds like the mereological fallacy. Survivalism also hints at that fallacy.

[ThomisticInstituteatIU]

This was a fantastic event, and the Q&A he ran afterwards was very engaging. Thanks to Dr. LaPenna for speaking at IU!