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portada The Mind and the Machine: What it Means to be Human and why it Matters
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Year
2017
Language
English
Pages
240
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780718894924
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The Mind and the Machine: What it Means to be Human and why it Matters

Matthew Dickerson (Author) · Lutterworth Press · Paperback

The Mind and the Machine: What it Means to be Human and why it Matters - Matthew Dickerson

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Synopsis "The Mind and the Machine: What it Means to be Human and why it Matters "

Are humans just complex biochemical machines, mere physical parts of a causally closed materialist universe? Are we approaching the so-called ‘Singularity’, when human consciousness can (and will) be downloaded into computers? Or is there more to the human person – something that might be known as ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’? As this book makes clear, the answers to these questions have profound implications to topics such as heroism, creativity, ecology, and the possibility of reason and science. In exploring this important topic, Dickerson engages the ideas of some well-known twentieth- and twentyfirst-century espousers of physicalism, including the philosopher Daniel Dennett, the biologist Richard Dawkins, the futurist-engineer Raymond Kurzweil, the psychologist B.F. Skinner, and the mathematician-philosopher Bertrand Russell. Through a careful reading of their works, Dickerson not only provides a fivefold critique of physicalism but also offers a Christian alternative in the form of ‘integrative dualism’, which affirms the existence of both a physical and a spiritual reality without diminishing the goodness or importance of either, and acknowledges that humans are spiritual as well as bodily persons.Table of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Charles TaliaferroIntroduction: Why Any of This MattersIMPLICATIONS OF A HUMAN MACHINE1. Ghosts, Machines, and the Nature of Light2. Physicalism, Creativity, and Heroism3. Naturalism and Nature: The Ecology of Physicalism4. Reason, Science, and the Mind as a Physical BrainTHE SPIRITUAL HUMAN5. Affirming the Creative and the Heroic6. Body, Spirit, and the Value of Creation7. A Biblical Defense of Reason and Science8. The Integrated PersonWorks Cited

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