Franklin

a| 99056822

a| 1573927910

a| (OCoLC)ocm42810788

a| (OCoLC)42810788

a| 2727290

a| (PU)2727290-penndb-Voyager

a| DLC b| eng c| DLC d| C#P

a| PAUU

a| BD421 b| .E43 2000

a| 128/.1 2| 21

a| Elbert, Jerome W., d| 1942- 0| http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99281972

a| Are souls real? / c| Jerome W. Elbert.

a| Amherst, N.Y. : b| Prometheus Books, c| 2000.

a| 399 pages : b| illustrations ; c| 24 cm

a| text b| txt 2| rdacontent

a| unmediated b| n 2| rdamedia

a| volume b| nc 2| rdacarrier

a| Includes bibliographical references and index.

g| Part I. t| Religion and the Soul g| 17 -- g| 1. t| Challenging Our Ideas About the Soul g| 19 -- t| How Science Obtains Objective Knowledge g| 21 -- t| When Religion Disagrees with Science g| 22 -- t| The Shifting Boundary Between Science and Philosophy g| 27 -- g| 2. t| The Ancient Origins of the Idea of the Soul g| 29 -- t| The Idea of the Soul g| 29 -- t| Origins of Beliefs in Various Kinds of Souls g| 32 -- t| The Hebrew Ideas of the Soul g| 36 -- t| Early Greek Ideas about the Soul g| 39 -- t| The Soul According to Socrates and Plato g| 40 -- t| Early Christian Soul Beliefs g| 44 -- t| Aquinas and Aristotle g| 45 -- t| Descartes and Modern Soul Beliefs g| 47 -- t| Some Popular and Questionable Soul Beliefs g| 51 -- g| 3. t| The Pagan Parallels of Some Christian Beliefs g| 57 -- t| Old Testament Myths Shared with Other Peoples g| 58 -- t| Egyptian Beliefs About an Afterlife and Morality g| 59 -- t| Egypt and Moses g| 62 -- t| Zoroaster: The Iranian Connection g| 64 -- t| The Mystery Religions g| 67 -- t| The Cult of Mithra and Christianity g| 70 -- g| 4. t| New Ideas About the Origin of the New Testament g| 77 -- t| The Book of Q g| 77 -- t| The Rising Image of Jesus Buried in Q g| 79 -- t| Galilee and the Greek Connection g| 85 -- t| The Christian Branch of the Jesus Movement g| 89 -- t| The Gospels as Biographies of a Classical Hero g| 91 -- t| The Evolution of Beliefs About Jesus g| 94 -- t| Jesus' Miracles g| 96 -- t| Jesus' Suffering, Death, and Resurrection g| 100 -- g| Part II. t| Science and the Soul g| 111 -- g| 5. t| The Blocks and Cement That Build Our World g| 113 -- t| The Atom in Classical Greece and Modern Science g| 114 -- t| Weighing the Atom g| 117 -- t| Elementary Particles within the Atom g| 118 -- t| Radioactivity and the Discovery of the Nucleus g| 122 -- t| Particles That Hold the Nucleus Together g| 125 -- t| Antiparticles, Neutrinos, and Photons g| 127 -- t| Particle Lifetimes and the Weak Force g| 129 -- t| More-Elementary Particles: The Quarks and Gluons g| 131 -- t| The Four Fundamental Forces in Nature g| 133 -- t| How Physics Understands the Physical World g| 135 -- g| 6. t| Our Cosmic Genesis I: The Origin of Matter and the Earth g| 139 -- t| Galaxies g| 140 -- t| The Big Bang g| 141 -- t| Inflation and the Origin of Matter g| 147 -- t| The Stars: Factories for Life's Raw Materials g| 150 -- t| Formation of the Solar System g| 152 -- t| Early Earth g| 155 -- g| 7. t| Our Cosmic Genesis II: The Origin and Advancement of Life g| 159 -- t| A Definition of "Life" g| 160 -- t| Life's Self-Copying Blueprints g| 161 -- t| Charles Darwin and Natural Selection g| 164 -- t| Evolution and Life g| 167 -- t| One Ancestor of All Life g| 169 -- t| The Antiquity of Life g| 170 -- t| The Origin of Life g| 171 -- t| Solar-Powered Life g| 173 -- t| Beyond Bacteria g| 176 -- t| Muscles: Organs Specializing in Movements g| 179 -- g| 8. t| Adam's Tool Kit: The Evolution of Human Abilities g| 185 -- t| Control of Movements by Nervous Systems g| 186 -- t| Neurons, Meaning, Patterns, and Categories g| 187 -- t| Learning g| 191 -- t| Memory g| 193 -- t| Attention g| 195 -- t| Apes, Monkeys, Minds, and Mirrors g| 196 -- t| Chimpanzees and Language g| 200 -- t| Dinosaurs, Mammals, and Primates g| 203 -- t| Hominids and Humans g| 204 -- t| Why Humans Dominate Earth g| 207 -- g| 9. t| Consciousness, the Soul, and the Brain g| 213 -- t| Life without the Supernatural Soul g| 214 -- t| Mental Mysteries, the Soul, and the Brain g| 216 -- t| The Brain's Role in Mental Processes g| 220 -- t| Consciousness and the Brain g| 222 -- t| Using a Brain to Represent Reality g| 225 -- g| 10. t| Consciousness and Models of the Mind g| 231 -- t| A Toy Model of Consciousness g| 233 -- t| Playing with the Toy Model g| 234 -- t| Conscious and Subconscious Mental Activities g| 239 -- t| Difficulties in Explaining Consciousness g| 242 -- t| "It Has the Right Properties, But Is It Really Conscious?" g| 247 -- t| Consciousness as a Natural Process g| 249 -- g| 11. t| Consciousness and Ghost-Busting g| 253 -- t| Eccles's Model of The Self and the Brain g| 253 -- t| Minds, Computers, and Robots g| 256 -- t| A Recent Argument for the Soul g| 261 -- t| Introducing the "Natural Soul" g| 268 -- g| 12. t| Consciousness and Feelings g| 271 -- t| Why Do Colors Look the Way They Do? g| 272 -- t| Feelings as Physical Processes g| 275 -- t| The Evolutionary Function of Feelings g| 277 -- t| Values, Values, Everywhere g| 280 -- t| Triggering and Activating the Emotions g| 282 -- t| Pains g| 285 -- t| Primitive Motivations in Modern Minds g| 288 -- t| Why Pain Feels Bad and Pleasure Feels Good g| 291 -- t| Who or What Is in Control? g| 294 -- g| 13. t| Physics, the Quantum, and Free Will g| 297 -- t| Objective Free Will: The Traditional Belief g| 298 -- t| The Origins of Objective Free Will g| 299 -- t| Classical Physics and Determinism g| 302 -- t| Determinism, Decisions, and Neurons g| 304 -- t| Free Will and Chaos g| 306 -- t| Free Will and the Quantum Loophole g| 308 -- t| Conclusions on Objective Free Wil g| 311 -- g| 14. t| Feeling Free and Being Free g| 315 -- t| Shaped by the Universe g| 315 -- t| Freedom and Limits to Our Self-Knowledge g| 320 -- t| Is Free Will an Illusion? g| 323 -- t| The Evolution of Freedom g| 326 -- t| Accepting Limited Freedom g| 328 -- g| Part III. t| Living Without Soul Beliefs g| 331 -- g| 15. t| Taking Stock of One's Own Nature g| 333 -- t| Accepting Death as Real g| 334 -- t| Accepting Death without Fear g| 336 -- t| Control and Human Dignity g| 338 -- t| Taking Responsibility g| 340 -- t| Failure, Regrets, and Tolerance g| 342 -- t| Religious Implications of the Natural Soul g| 344 -- t| Why We Tend to Create a Personal God g| 345 -- t| Having Values and Living by Them g| 348 -- g| 16. t| Society and Our Nature g| 353 -- t| Sensible Reverence for Life and Consciousness g| 353 -- t| Seeking Justice by Natural Means g| 355 -- t| Seeking a Healthy World g| 356 -- t| Religion without Supernaturalism g| 357 -- g| Appendix I t| How the Quantum Entered Modern Science g| 361 -- g| Appendix II t| Waves, Uncertainties, and Randomness g| 365.

a| Among the many religious notions passed down from generation to generation, belief in the soul may be the most in need of reconsideration. Despite its slightly antiquated nuances and its fuzziness as a coherent idea, people today still refer to the soul quite frequently. Physicist Jerome W. Elbert points out that many contemporary dilemmas have much to do with whether or not we posit the existence of a soul -- for example, the question of free will and the debate over abortion. Reviewing the ancient origins of the soul concept, Elbert looks at Christian beliefs and pagan parallels, and then considers how the advance of science has changed our fundamental understanding of the brain and consciousness. He shows how these new scientific insights inevitably affect our traditional ideas about the soul.

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