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Dr. Robert J. Marks Reads From Minding the Brain

Robert J. Marks II
September 19, 2024
Is your mind the same thing as your brain? Or are there aspects of mind that are external to the biology of the brain? This is the mind-body problem, and it has captivated curious minds since the dawn of human contemplation. Today many insist that the mind is completely reducible to the brain. But is that claim justified? On this episode, host Robert J. Marks reads from the Introduction to the recent volume Minding the Brain: Models of the Mind, Information, and Empirical Science. There is ample evidence across a spectrum of specialties that the mind is more than the brain, and the evidence for a non-materialist account is accumulating. Minding the Brain highlights this evidence, laying the groundwork for promising lines of inquiry for a new generation of philosophical and scientific

Stephen Meyer & Ben Shapiro Discuss the Origin of Information

Stephen C. Meyer
September 18, 2024
On this episode of ID The Future, we’re bringing you the concluding half of a 2019 interview between Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro and philosopher of science Dr. Stephen C. Meyer. The conversation is now five years old, so it’s a good time to dust it off and share it with those who may have missed it or forgotten about it. Dr. Meyer considers this one of the best interviews he’s done on the subject of his second solo book Darwin’s Doubt. Shapiro was extremely well-prepared and asked great questions, resulting in a thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging hour-long conversation. In the second half, Dr. Meyer and Shapiro discuss the origin of life. Dr. Meyer explains how the field reached an impasse by the 1980s as chemists learned just how thorny the origin of life problem

Stephen Meyer and Ben Shapiro Talk Intelligent Design

Stephen C. Meyer
September 16, 2024
On this ID The Future, we bring you the first half of Daily Wire host Ben Shapiro’s 2019 interview with philosopher of science Dr. Stephen Meyer on The Ben Shapiro Sunday Special. This exchange happened five years ago now, and we thought it was a good time to put it out there again for those who may not have heard it yet or don’t remember it. Dr. Meyer considers this one of the best interviews he’s done on the subject of his second solo book Darwin’s Doubt. Shapiro was very well-prepared and asked great questions, resulting in a thought-provoking and thoroughly engaging hour-long conversation. We’ve got the first half of it for you today, followed by the concluding half in a subsequent episode. In this first half, Dr. Meyer starts off with the basics, including his own

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