11. Ecology Topic: Consciousness and Information Processing
what the non-reductive physicalist wants to say about
the mental and what the biologist wants to say about life. Life does not require a new kind of entity,
that is, complex bodies have the quality of being alive if they interact with
the
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12. Neuroscience Topic: Consciousness and Information Processing
what the non-reductive physicalist wants to say about the mental and what the biologist wants to say about life. Life does not require a new kind of entity, that is, complex bodies have the quality of being alive if they interact with the
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13. Neuroscience Topic: Reductionism and Non-Reductionism
that for the non-reductive physicalist we're not going to introduce any new non-physical forces or entities, vital forces or psychic energy. So how can the causal properties of these higher-level things really matter? And how can it not be the
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14. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: The Rhetoric of Darwinism
stressed the reductionistic, physicalist
aspects of his theory in order to eliminate any hint of the involvement of a
designer or a vital force in his explanation of the development of living
things. Rather the rhetoric of Darwinism is of a
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15. God, Humanity and the Cosmos Topic: An Examination of Reductionism
.
However, this very basic physicalist assumption is of strictly limited
importance. All human beings are made of the same sorts of atoms, indeed the
same sorts of chemicals. We do consist
of nothing but these constituents in the
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16. Neuroscience Topic: The Person in Hebrew Scriptures
holistic and nonreductive
physicalist . Jewish scholar Neil Gillman writes:
Biblical anthropology knows nothing of this dualistic picture
of a person which claims that a human being is a composite of
two entities, a material body
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17. Subject Home: Psychology and Neuroscience
Meat: A Non-Reductive Physicalist Account of Human Nature... (Nancey
Murphy , 9 topics)
Neuroscience
and the Soul... (Nancey Murphy, 13 topics)
Becoming Human: Brain, Mind and
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18. Neuroscience Topic: The Person in The New Testament
a holistic and nonreductive physicalist account
of the person. However, some argue that the New Testament presupposes
dualism , since there are a few passages appearing to support a
doctrine of "the intermediate state." This
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19. Origins Topic: Robert Russell - Presentation
Fall
A Non-Reductive Physicalist Account
of Human Nature
Big Bang Cosmology and Theology
Evolution and Continuous
Creation
Quantum Physics and
Theology - Index
The Meaning of Genesis 1
Self-Organisation
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20. Question Home: Are we Free?
A Non-Reductive
Physicalist Account of Human Nature... (Nancey
Murphy , 9 topics)
Genetics
and Ethics... (Ted Peters , 17 topics)
Neuroscience
and the Soul... (Nancey
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