The Super Natural: Why the Unexplained Is Real
Our current epistemology—dominated by a physicalist, reductive, Cartesian science—is unequipped to recognize anything real that isn’t measurable by matter. It insists consciousness must be a function of neurons and nothing else. It assumes life must emerge from biology, even though we now simulate biology with code.
But the cracks in that worldview ... See more
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“His three Eras or Dominants are: (1) the Old Dominant of religion, which he associates with the way of knowing called belief and the professionalism of priests; (2) the present Dominant of materialistic science, which he associates with the way of knowing called explanation and the professionalism of scientists; and (3) the New Dominant of what he... See more
Whereas religions place strictures against dabbling in the supernatural, atheists and rationalists prefer to banish (i.e., repress) the ideas entirely. Yet the supernatural is found in all cultures, and it cannot be effectively eliminated with rationalistic incantations such as: “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.” The paranormal
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