“So I spend quite a bit of time trying to make sense of how I seem to
have a soul, I have this ghostly consciousness, yet I know as a believer
in science that this is just coming from carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen
molecules. I think if you take science seriously there are a lot of
interesting questions to ask. I would be happy if more novelists, not
just science fiction writers, paid attention to that.”
I share with Jonathan an interest in the mystery of “this ghostly consciousness” and how this arises given the material constituents from what we are constructed and which seem reducible to inexorable scientific laws. And yet I'm very religious. At long last, I’ve come to the conclusion that the emergent character of reality holds clues to this mystery.
Aids to me in understanding this:
1. The Marriage of Sense and Soul by Ken Wilber.
2. A New Kind of Christian by Brian McLaren
3. The Emergence of Everything: How the World Became Complex by Harold Morowitz.
4. Philip Clayton & Paul Davies (eds.) The Re-Emergence of Emergence: The Emergentist Hypothesis from Science to Religion
In addition, various explorations into our postmodern age have been a help as well.
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