International Journal of Theology, Philosophy and Science 2 (2):17-33 (2018)
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“I am me”, but what does this mean? For centuries humans identified themselves
as conscious beings with free will, beings that are important in the cosmos they
live in. However, modern science has been trying to reduce us into unimportant
pawns in a cold universe and diminish our sense of consciousness into a mere
illusion generated by lifeless matter. Our identity in the cosmos is nothing more
than a deception and all the scientific evidence seem to support this idea. Or is it
not? The goal of this paper is to discard current underlying dogmatism (axioms
taken for granted as "self-evident") of modern mind research and to show that
consciousness seems to be the ultimate frontier that will cause a major change in
the way exact sciences think. If we want to re-discover our identity as luminous
beings in the cosmos, we must first try to pinpoint our prejudices and discard
them. Materialism is an obsolete philosophical dogma and modern scientists
should try to also use other premises as the foundation of their theories to
approach the mysteries of the self. Exact sciences need to examine the world with
a more open mind, accepting potentially different interpretations of existing
experimental data in the fields of brain research, which are currently not
considered simply on the basis of a strong anti-spiritual dogmatism. Such
interpretations can be compatible with the notion of an immaterial spirit proposed
by religion for thousands of years. Mind seems that is not the by-product of
matter, but the opposite: its master. No current materialistic theory can explain
how matter may give rise to what we call “self” and only a drastic paradigm shift
towards more idealistic theories will help us avoid rejecting our own nature.
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Keywords | mind brain materialism consciousness dogmatism axioms neuroscience |
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