In this episode, we continue our series by engaging Chapter 4 of Stan’s new book, Have We Lost Our Minds?: Neuroscience, Neurotheology, the Soul, and Human Flourishing. 

We discuss:

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• Why neurotheologians are mistaken about our true nature.
  
• Why it isn’t possible to reduce mental properties to physical events.
  
• How we should understand our unity through time.
  
• How the modal argument helps us understand identity.
  
• Why non-reductive physicalism or “emergence” is of no help to the physicalist position.
  
• What a “brute fact” is.
  
• What did Dallas Willard meant when he talked about the nature of the body.
  
• Thoughts on human flourishing and why it matters.
  

Resources and Citations:

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• Find out more about Have We Lost Our Minds?
  
• Get the introduction to the book for free on the Global Scholars website.
  
• A printable group discussion guide can be found here.
  
• P. Moreland, “Substance Dualism and the Unity of Consciousness”: The Blackwell Companion to Substance Dualism
  
• Gary W. Moon, Becoming Dallas Willard: The Formation of a Philosopher, Teacher, and Christ Follower
  
• Thinking Christianly Episode #6: What is Human Flourishing and How Do We Achieve it?