The idea of the mind as a “meat machine” retains its hold on smart people for reasons other than neuroscience. It’s not science but the culture of materialism speaking.

Discovery is getting ready to enter into a conversation with leaders in the information and technology industry, centered in Seattle.

Since 1984, the mystery has remained untouched by any approach that assumes a purely materialist solution. And yet the media narrative goes on, and the scientists, when they protest, direct their protests not so much at the media as at the skeptics and mavericks, such as Tour himself or the proponents of ID. These people not objective.

Wesley Smith writes, “Suicide in the U.S. is at the highest rate since World War II. Don’t tell me that the ongoing abdication of the suicide-prevention sector to unequivocally oppose all suicides doesn’t add to the ongoing crisis.”

Eric Holloway writes, “All such theories either deny the very thing they are trying to explain, result in absurd scenarios, or end up requiring an immaterial intervention.”