No, use your mind.
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Materialism Is a Totalistic Claim | Evolution News
There are aspects of the mind that are not generated in the brain. That sounds like a modest claim.
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...but it is actually quite radical. It means that claims that the human mind is simply the physical functions of the brain — which are commonplace in neuroscience — are not correct. That means, in turn, that materialism is not true.
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The textbooks are written by and large by people who have never seen a living human brain and have never seen or treated a person who has a brain problem where you can actually understand. These are basic scientists, these are people who work with lab animals and they have all kinds of book knowledge, but the real world doesn’t always match up.
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A good example was a little girl that I take care of, I’ll call her Cindy, that’s not her real name. But she was born with a twin sister and she was born with very little brain tissue in her head. Probably 80% of her brain was missing, the rest was just water and her twin sister was normal. And I counseled her family that she probably was going to be profoundly developmentally delayed, it was going to be really bad.
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And as the months and years went by, she grew up just fine. And we had her sister who was normal to compare and she was even more advanced than her sister. And she ended up on the honor roll in high school and I still follow her. She’s in her twenties. She’s a very smart young lady, her mom says she’s too smart for her own good. And probably 80% of what’s inside her head is water. And there’s nothing in any of my textbooks that explained that or even predicted that.
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So I began to look first into neuroscience and then into philosophy to try to understand this because it was very clear to me just in my everyday work life that the books didn’t get this right. There was something else going on. And of course, I also, I started out my life as an atheist and a materialist and somewhat at the same time in kind of a similar process became a Christian. So I started to look at human beings differently than I looked at them before.
