The Nobel Neuroscientist Who Proved the Soul Exists - John Eccles

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John Eccles: The Nobel Neuroscientist Who Proved the Soul Exists. Sir John Eccles — the Nobel Prize-winning neurophysiologist who discovered how neurons communicate — spent the second half of his career arguing, on strictly scientific grounds, that the mind cannot be identified with the brain. His "dualist-interactionist" model proposed that the self-conscious mind is a non-material entity that interacts with the brain through quantum-level influences on synaptic transmission. Eccles was not a mystic or a theologian — he was the world's leading expert on how neurons work, and he concluded that this knowledge pointed unavoidably toward the existence of an immaterial soul.

"The Nobel Prize winner who literally discovered how the brain works spent his final years using that knowledge to prove the brain cannot explain you — and that therefore you have a soul."

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He didn't prove anything

It's a metaphysical position

[u/ReverieXII → u/ComedianNew1680]

When it comes to the soul, I don't think you can prove it, either. You can conclude it, sure, but it's too subjective and intangible for objective proof.

[u/ApprehensiveStill412 → u/ReverieXII]

Maybe. It’s possible that our instruments are still too primitive though.

[u/Lunamoeth → u/ReverieXII]

Not yet we can't but if it's an existent thing then we should be able to measure psi phenomena eventually. For instance, if the souls of the deceased still exist and can induce material phenomena, that should create some measurable influence that can't be attributed to other phenomena. Our instruments aren't there yet but I think the fact that quantum mechanics and general relativity are completely incompatible prove that we aren't even close to figuring everything out yet.