I see where Discovery Institute has put up a podcast with me, on “Is the Brain Just an Illusion?
This must be one of the ones I did in Seattle in 2007, when they asked me to come and explain the book.
What I always ask is, “If the brain or the mind are an illusion, whose illusion are they?”
This question is modelled on the Jewish zen: “If the mind is an illusion, whose arthritis is this?”
On this episode of ID The Future, Anika Smith interviews science writer Denyse O’Leary about her book, The Spiritual Brain: A Neuroscientist’s Case for the Existence of the Soul.
In the book O’Leary and her co-author Mario Beaurogard, neuroscientist and Associate Professor at Université de Montréal, explore the question of whether or not the mind is an illusion as materialists believe. The Spiritual Brain looks at whether religious experiences come from God or are merely the random firing of neurons in the brain. Drawing on his own research with Carmelite nuns, Beauregard shows that genuine, life-changing spiritual events can be documented. He and O’Leary offer compelling evidence that mind creates matter, rather than matter creating mind.
Listen here. By the way, I always call myself the co-author and recognize neuroscientist Mario Beauregard of the Universite de Montreal as the lead author.
Denyse O’Leary is co-author of The Spiritual Brain.