CONSCIOUS OBJECTIONS: GOD AND THE CONSCIOUSNESS DEBATES.
Consciousness studies are dogged with religious overtones, and many researchers fight hard against Christian ideas of soul or anything supernatural. This gives many studies on consciousness a particular relevance to religious belief. Many writers assume that, if consciousness can be explained physic...
| Publicado en: | Zygon: Journal of Religion & Science Vol. 41; no. 2; pp. 249 - 267 |
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