Science has second thoughts about life

Posted by Kendall Harmon

Todd Feinberg
Professor of Psychiatry and Neurology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the US

“I have come to believe that an individual consciousness represents an entity that is so personal and ontologically unique that it qualifies as something that we might as well call ‘a soul’.”

He previously believed that the notion of a soul was a fanciful religious invention but became convinced that the brain and the mind could be regarded as separate, though dependent, entities. He says that the soul dies with the body

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Posted January 1, 2008 at 2:37 pm [Printer Friendly] [Print w/ comments]



1. RoyIII wrote:

A hidden comment in the newspaper article is excellent: “most of these changes are common wisdom you don’t need to be a scientist to know” by one “saud, riyadh”.  amen!

January 1, 4:13 pm | [comment link]
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