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...Developing distance learning programs] is going to force us to be more careful and conscious about what we think is special, to actively question what works best,” he says...
What makes us human—what sets us apart from, say, dogs and chickens—is our consciousness, not the mere fact of our biological existence. A fetus in its first trimester is not a conscious being. It will never know that it might have lived. Its mother, however, is conscious. The characterization of those who have abortions as cold, callow murderers is an unfair rhetorical ploy. The great majority of those who elect to have abortions do so not out of a joy of slaughtering unborn babies, but out of necessity. They inevitably agonize over the decision...
...release, Frattaroli addresses these questions, saying, “The body and brain belong to the domain of outer knowledge. We know about them by seeing, touching and measuring them. Mind, spirit, and soul belong to the domain of inner knowledge. We know about them only through our personal conscious experience...
...arguments, then, rest on the premise that most (if not all) mental illnesses usually attributed to the brain are at least in part disorders of the soul. And, because the soul is not chemical or physical, and indeed we can only know about it through our own conscious experience, it is necessary for psychiatrists to approach their work not only as if they are treating a concrete, physical entity with something concrete and physical amiss in it, but rather “by viewing brain chemistry as only one of several competing influences within the whole person-body, brain, mind...
Take, for instance, the case of pain as an example of conscious experience. Distinguished philosopher of mind Jaegwon Kim writes, in the Oxford Companion to Philosophy, that anti-physicalists have adduced the argument that “even if, say, pain should turn out to have a single neural-physical correlate across all organisms and other possible pain-capable systems, how could the painfulness of pain be a neurobiological property? In moving from the mental to the physical, we lose, it has been argued, what’s distinctively mental about mental properties...