The Mind-Body Problem and Promissory Materialism

Episode 211 March 12, 2008 00:10:59
The Mind-Body Problem and Promissory Materialism
Intelligent Design the Future
The Mind-Body Problem and Promissory Materialism

Mar 12 2008 | 00:10:59

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Show Notes

On this episode of ID the Future, CSC's Logan Gage interviews professor of neurosurgery at SUNY, Stony Brook Michael Egnor on the mind-body problem and promissory materialism.

Dr. Egnor explains how materialism has not been able to answer the "hard problem of consciousness." Instead, as promissory materialism, it claims that materialism as a theory will eventually be able to explain what it has yet to explain at all.

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