
Author/Contributor(s): | Swinburne, Richard |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press, USA |
Date: | 10/01/2019 |
Binding: | Hardcover |
Condition: | NEW |
advances enable neuroscientists to transplant a part of brain into a new body, he reasons, no matter how much we can find out about their brain activity or conscious experiences we will never know whether the resulting person is the same as before or somebody entirely new. Swinburne thus argues that
we are immaterial souls sustained in existence by our brains. Sensations, thoughts, and intentions are conscious events in our souls that cause events in our brains. While scientists might discover some of the laws of nature that determine conscious events and brain events, each person's soul is an
individual thing and this is what ultimately makes us who we are.