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The dualist belief that body and soul are separate entities is natural, intuitive and with us from infancy. It is also very probably wrong When I was 17 in 1971, I purchased my dream car — a 1966 Ford...
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This review of The Brain and the Meaning of Life by Paul Thagard (Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2010. ISBN 9780691142722) appeared in Science Vol. 328, Issue 5979 in May 2010. Twice I have...
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Alvy’s Error and the Meaning of Life
Science reveals our deepest purpose In a flashback scene in the 1977 film Annie Hall, Woody Allen’s character Alvy Singer is a depressed young boy who won’t do his homework because, as he explains to...
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Do anomalies prove the existence of God? This op-ed was originally published on Slate.com as part of a Big Ideas series on the question “What is the Future of Religion” in 2015. For a quarter century...
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