Matthew Alper
Teoksen The "God" Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God tekijä
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The "God" Part of the Brain: A Scientific Interpretation of Human Spirituality and God (2000) 254 kappaletta
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- Alper, Matthew
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- Brooklyn, New York, USA
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OK. I accept his conclusions in this case, but not his supporting argument. Denying the existence of God, the soul, and spiritual reality is unnecessary. Besides, he never succeeded in more than implying that structures in the brain might be related to spiritual thoughts.
He claims that spiritual consciousness exists as the consequence of a neurophysiological reflex. “Just as planaria reflexively turn towards the light, humankind reflexively turn towards imaginary powers.” Now, logically if that statement is true, “just as” would imply that the “imaginary powers” were as real as “light.” Maybe those genetically evolved brain structures are organs that allow people to see beyond physical reality, “just as” eyes see light.
Alper’s book is pseudo-scientific and muddled. He quotes Kant’s description of reality as “things as we perceive them” but never deals with what “perceive” or “we” actually mean. Who is doing the perceiving? He denies the existence of “mind” and only accepts the existence of “brain.” It was an awful lot of words emerging from a bunch of neurochemicals and genes.… (lisätietoja)