Think Biblically: Conversations on Faith & Culture What is a Person? And Why It Matters (with JP Moreland)
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Dec 7, 2023 In this podcast, JP Moreland, a distinguished philosophy professor, discusses the concept of personhood and its implications. They delve into topics such as life after death, criminal justice, AI learning versus human learning, transhumanism, and the role of consciousness in communication for conveying the gospel message.
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Soul-Inhabiting-Bodied Persons
- Substance dualism: we are souls that inhabit bodies and could exist without them.
- While embodied the soul uses the body as an instrument but is not identical to it.
Neuroscience Doesn’t Disprove The Soul
- Neuroscience findings are empirically compatible with physicalism, property dualism, or substance dualism.
- Moreland favors substance dualism: the soul uses the brain as a tool while consciousness resides in the soul.
Naturalism Explains Soul Rejection
- Rejection of the soul often traces to cultural naturalism, not argument strength.
- Moreland says recent academic interest in the soul has grown and physicalists are on the defensive.