about future emergent-physicalist attempts to account for both mental images and subjective experience/qualia. While the topic of consciousness invariably shows up in conversations about human agency and causation, a particular commitment

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body and, second, that this physicalist interpretation so undermines the doctrine of the immortal soul that the Christian view of eternal salvation becomes counter- scientific. Peters points out that until recently theologians have not been

Conclusion So the physicalist 's part is it depends on the brain. But here's the non-reductive part in a nutshell:  Those mental constructions that involve language make a real causal difference in the world.  We can see that this is

But again, a non-reductive physicalist says there's no need to postulate the addition of a new kind of entity, a mind or soul. Rather, what we have is more complexity and specific organization for new functions. We can guess from looking at

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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Conclusion So the physicalist 's part is it depends on the brain. But here's the non-reductive part in a nutshell:Those mental constructions that involve language make a real causal difference in the world.We can see that this is

But again, a non-reductive physicalist says there's no need to postulate the addition of a new kind of entity, a mind or soul. Rather, what we have is more complexity and specific organization for new functions. We can guess from looking at