The Scientific & Medical NetworkCategory: News
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Does Consciousness Come from the Brain? – Mark Gober
In spite of this hard problem, there is a prevailing assumption in modern science which says consciousness comes from the brain. We don’t understand how, but that’s because the brain is complicated and one day we’ll figure it out (so the story goes). But what if the brain doesn’t produce consciousness at all?
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
Atheists used to believe that with the spread of secular education, religion would fade away and science reign supreme. But this has not happened. Breaking the Spell is part of a wave of new books by militant atheists who feel threatened by the power of religion.
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Does It Matter? The Unsustainable World of the Materialists
It is still the reigning paradigm in science that consciousness can be reduced to the operations of the brain. Graham Martin sets out a powerful case against this dogma: one wishes that most of the contributors to the Journal of Consciousness Studies could be made to read it.
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Human Nature and the Limits of Science
This book’s blurb says that it is `a provocative, witty and persuasive corrective to scientism’ and this time the blurb is quite right. John Dupré’s main targets are the two doctrines now fashionably offered as ways to understand human nature – evolutionary psychology and rational-choice theory based on economics. He shows clearly how hopelessly unsuitable…
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Robert Hasse on The Science of Consciousness Conference’s Success
Our transcendent consciousness research showed significant scientific correlations between remembering near-death experiences (NDE) and spiritual contemplative experiences (SCE) a.k.a. mystical experiences.
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What If Consciousness Comes First?
The key to resolving the hard problem of consciousness lies in the following observation. While physical properties cannot explain consciousness, consciousness is needed to explain physical properties.
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Communication of the “Objective Reality” as Signal to the Senses
Consciousness cannot be articulated. In the unconditional state it is inexpressible. However, this Transcendental Reality could be naturalized internally by the human brain, which has been evolutionarily primed to do this. On the other side, externally, this has been a spontaneous happening in nature.
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Poster presenting the Galileo Commission by the Chair David Lorimer
At the recently held conference The Science of Consciousness 2019 in Interlaken, Switzerland, the Chair of the Galileo Commission David Lorimer presented a poster in relation to the initiative.
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The Philosopher Tim Freke Discusses Jordan Peterson, Carl Jung and the Soul
The philosopher Tim Freke talks about Jordan Peterson, Carl Jung and the Soul.
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Essay of the Month: Andrew Lohrey’s ‘A New Paradigm’
Harold Walach, the author of the Report, has written an excellent exposition of the current distortions that have erased consciousness from mainstream science. I would respectfully suggest, however, that the paradigm of scientific materialism does not only erase consciousness, it also erases, ignores or forgets about language, meaning and mind.
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GC Adviser Pim van Lommel on the Relationship Between Consciousness and the Body
After extensive NDE studies, the Dutch cardiologist Dr. Pim van Lommel believes that consciousness can also exist outside the body.
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Russell Targ on his daughter Elisabeth Targ’s research on Near-Death Experiences
Russell Targ shares his memories of his late daughter, Elisabeth Targ, MD, a pioneering researcher in the realm of psychic healing.