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Claire said. “I might be able to get him to stop. ” “Who, crazy dude? Maybe. Or he might pull your head off,” Shane said. “I kind of worry. ” She couldn’t help but smile. “Yeah?” “A little bit. ” “That’s …nice. ” He studied her, and returned the smile. “Yeah,” he said. “Kind of is, actually.

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In order that a "self" may exist there must be some continuity of mental experiences and, particularly, continuity bridging gaps of unconsciousness. For example, the continuity of our "self" is resumed after sleep, anaesthesia, and the temporary amnesias of concussion and convulsions.

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Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict is a result of ignorance. We come to exist through a divine act. That divine guidance is a theme throughout our life; at our death the brain goes, but that divine guidance and love continues. Each of us is a unique, conscious being, a divine creation. It is the religious view. It is the only view consistent with all the evidence.

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The last thing that man will understand in nature is the performance of his brain.

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A better understanding of the brain is certain to lead man to a richer comprehension both of himself, of his fellow man, and of society, and in fact of the whole world with its problems.

Brain, Fact, Man, Men, Understanding, World

I maintain that the human mystery is incredibly demeaned by scientific reductionism, with its claim in promissory materialism to account eventually for all of the spiritual world in terms of patterns of neuronal activity. This belief must be classed as a superstition. . . . We have to recognize that we are spiritual beings with souls existing in a spiritual world as well as material beings with bodies and brains existing in a material world.

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I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams.

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