Brain Mind Soul: or, Neurotheology

Queen of the Sciences

Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 18 min•Season 5Ep. 23

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Episode description

Is it a brain? Is it a mind? Is it a soul? What hath neuroscience to do with theology? In this episode Dad and I discuss recent work on the function of the brain and especially its hemispheric differences, and what this has to do with rationality, bodiliness, and faith.

Notes:

1. Kandel, There Is Life after the Nobel Prize

2. Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself

3. McGilchrist, The Master and His Emissary

4. I discuss "transgenre theology" on episode 19 of my new podcast, Sarah Hinlicky Wilson Stories!

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