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Is the Person All Material? | Episode 404 | Closer To Truth

2021-01-05 Education
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Donate to Closer To Truth and help us keep our content free and without paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq What makes a human being a "person?" What provides our sense of unity and continuity? While most people assume that to be a person is to have a soul, most philosophers-and some theologians-believe that persons are all material. Featuring interviews with Daniel Dennett, Alvin Plantinga, Peter van Inwagen, John Searle, and David Chalmers. Season 4, Episode 4 - #CloserToTruth ▶Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant. ▶Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers. #Person #Self

Top Comments (10)

@UnleashADHD 2021-01-05

What is this "material" we keep talking about? We don't understand some 70% of the "material" that make up our universe. We just call it "dark energy", but we understand so little about it we might as well call it magic.

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@johnmccabe7645 2021-01-06

We are spiritual beings having this human experience.

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@theaviary238 2021-01-05

Love this show. ❤

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@funnythings4894 2021-01-11

The question is: can consciousness exist without a material basis. The next question arises: what is consciousness and what is material and what is the link between material, consciousness and reality. There are a lot of questions to be answered. If you remove my body will I still be I, if I have my body and you remove my thoughts am I still I. Where am I???

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@sorlag110 2021-01-08

The part about the center of narrative gravity and how it's analogous to the Earth's gravity really blew my mind.

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@koresam9351 2022-03-08

What makes human being a person not an animals, humans built abstracts things, animals can't ...

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@prestonbacchus4204 2022-08-20

You guys come up with excellent interesting questions. And good discussion, nice.

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@Sharperthanu1 2021-12-27

Ones' soul is ones' TRANSCENDENT reaction to circumstances.

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@dondattaford5593 2021-01-06

I think a question about what are our thoughts seems like nothing but shows that there's more to it

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@tunahelpa5433 2023-01-26

Great summation at the end, Dr Kuhn !

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