Name: Athanatism: Consciousness and Immortality Under a Skeptic’S Microscope (en Inglés)
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Author: Ernst Haeckel; David Lane
ISBN: 9781435761575

portada Athanatism: Consciousness and Immortality Under a Skeptic’S Microscope (en Inglés)

Athanatism: Consciousness and Immortality Under a Skeptic’S Microscope (en Inglés)

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Athanatism: Consciousness and Immortality Under a Skeptic’S Microscope (en Inglés)

Ernst Haeckel (Autor) · Joseph McCabe (Traducido por) · David Lane (Introducción de) · Lulu.Com · Tapa Blanda

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I find it quite remarkable that an evolutionary zoologist working in the latter part of the 19th century could be so prescient about the utility of studying consciousness from a purely physicalist perspective. While Ernst Haeckel (1834-1919) was readily aware that many of his colleagues held dualistic views on the nature of self-awareness (a soul apart from the body), he saw more clearly than most that such supernatural conjecturing was both unnecessary and non-progressive. By focusing our attention on the sensible world, and in particular the brain, we can develop a much deeper and richer understanding of how and why consciousness must have emerged in the first place. If, however, we adopt a purely spiritualist perspective, arguing that the "soul" is non-material, then we have basically put a halt to any scientific study of the very biochemistry that gives rise to varying degrees of consciousness. Haeckel points out that our own self-awareness is a natural phenomenon and not something part from the world we inhabit. As he so clearly states, "We shall see that consciousness is simply a natural phenomenon like any other psychic quality, and that it is subject to the law of substance like all other natural phenomena."