Name: Athanatism: Consciousness and Immortality Under a Skeptic's Microscope (en Inglés)
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Author: Haeckel, Ernst ; McCabe, Joseph ; Lane, David
ISBN: 9781435761575

portada Athanatism: Consciousness and Immortality Under a Skeptic's Microscope (en Inglés)

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Libro Físico

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Ernst Haeckel

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Inglés

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22.9 x 15.2 x 0.3 cm

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0.09 kg.

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9781435761575

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Biodiversidad

Athanatism: Consciousness and Immortality Under a Skeptic's Microscope (en Inglés)

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I find it quite remarkable that an evolutionary zoologist working in the latter part of the 19th century could be so prescient about the utility of studying consciousness from a purely physicalist perspective. While Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was readily aware that many of his colleagues held dualistic views on the nature of self-awareness (a soul apart from the body), he saw more clearly than most that such supernatural conjecturing was both unnecessary and non-progressive. By focusing our attention on the sensible world, and in particular the brain, we can develop a much deeper and richer understanding of how and why consciousness must have emerged in the first place. If, however, we adopt a purely spiritualist perspective, arguing that the "soul" is non-material, then we have basically put a halt to any scientific study of the very biochemistry that gives rise to varying degrees of consciousness. Haeckel points out that our own self-awareness is a natural phenomenon and not something part from the world we inhabit. As he so clearly states, "We shall see that consciousness is simply a natural phenomenon like any other psychic quality, and that it is subject to the law of substance like all other natural phenomena."