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Daniel C. Dennett - Do Persons Have Souls?

2021-06-09 Education
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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Is the 'real you' a special substance that is nonphysical and immortal? Most regular people would agree, but most scientists would not. What are you? A body alone that is dead forever once it dies? A soul temporally inhabiting a body? A body unified with a nonphysical entity of some kind? What some theologians think may surprise you. Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Watch more interviews on if humans have souls: https://bit.ly/3vdIFGF Daniel Clement Dennett III is an American philosopher, writer and cognitive scientist and is currently the Co-director of the Center for Cognitive Studies and Professor at Tufts University. Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP 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.

Top Comments (10)

@terryb3102 2021-06-11

Everyone may not have a soul, but I know James Brown does or did.

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@yseeker.2 2021-06-20

I can't understand how the interviewer is sitting in a much comfortable way than the interviewee !

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@Bo-tz4nw 2021-06-09

Interesting, as usual. Keep up the good work!

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@Linkous12 2021-06-11

Dan doesn't age. He's looked like this for 15 years.

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@Rotten_Venom 2021-06-11

What if EA Games has created the world? Soul Pack (Starter Pack) 4.99$

18 1 replies
@TwistedSisterHaratiofales 2021-07-11

This discussion reminds me of the dyslexic agnostic insomniac who lays awake at night and truly wonders if a Dog is real.

13 1 replies
@biggusbestus551 2021-06-19

I would love to see the reaction of the minister of that church after watching this video ...

10 1 replies
@JohnnyCrepe 2021-06-11

What an interesting seating position to have a filmed conversation.

10 1 replies
@photographyandthecreativeyou 2021-11-12

Fascinating conversation! Thanks to you two gents!

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@davidjarred 2021-06-21

my neck is sore from watching this

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