The Fifth Column That the Theists Need: The Line Up of Deniers of Free Will
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Almost 80% of top scientists, physicists, mathematicians, and philosophers are atheists. I as a theist stand little chance […]
Nobel in Physics of 2022 and the Quranic Metaphor from Sleep to Afterlife
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times I am a sleep specialist physician and have been studying sleep not only medically but also philosophically and […]
Where Did the Famous Philosopher John Searle Go Wrong on Consciousness?
Epigraph “Consciousness is a biological phenomenon, like photosynthesis, digestion, and mitosis. You know all the biological phenomena. And once you accept that, most, though not all, of the hard problems […]
You Read This Line, You Are Conscious: Now Marvel Over the Mystery of Your Consciousness!
Epigraph: سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ ۗ أَوَلَمْ يَكْفِ بِرَبِّكَ أَنَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ We shall show them Our signs upon the horizons and […]
Henry P. Stapp’s Presentation of Consciousness
Epigraph: سَنُرِيهِمْ آيَاتِنَا فِي الْآفَاقِ وَفِي أَنفُسِهِمْ حَتَّىٰ يَتَبَيَّنَ لَهُمْ أَنَّهُ الْحَقُّ ۗ أَوَلَمْ يَكْفِ بِرَبِّكَ أَنَّهُ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَيْءٍ شَهِيدٌ We shall show them Our signs upon the horizons and […]
Can Consciousness Be Only Explained In the Light of the Quran?
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
Federico Faggin, PhD: Another Panpsychist?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Federico Faggin, the brilliant physicist and engineer behind the world’s first microprocessor, has taken an unexpected yet deeply […]
Human Consciousness: Panpsychism and Pantheism: Compliments in Disguise to Monotheism?
Epigraph: Eyes cannot reach Him but He reaches the human consciousness. And He is the Incomprehensible, the All-Aware. (Al Quran 6:103) Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of […]
A Verse of the Quran and 225 Theories of Consciousness
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
The Quran Says Humanity Cannot Even Create a Fly, Is The 2024 Noble Laureate Challenging That?
Epigraph: People, here is an illustration, so listen carefully: those you call on beside God could not, even if they combined all their forces, create a fly, and if a […]
Questioning Geoffrey Hinton’s Prediction that AI Will be Conscious
Artificial Intelligence and Afterlife? Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by […]
Book Review: The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]
Is Our Consciousness a Hallucination?
Epigraph: And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have been given but a little.’ […]
Galen Strawson: ‘Panpsychism is Necessary for Consciousness?’
… Galen Strawson is a prominent British philosopher renowned for his extensive work on consciousness, the mind-body problem, and related metaphysical issues. His perspectives have significantly influenced contemporary debates in the philosophy of mind. Critique of Consciousness Denial Strawson has been a vocal critic of positions that deny or diminish […]
“Schrödinger’s Cat,” And Its Bearing on Human Consciousness and Total Reality
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Erwin Schrödinger, an Austrian theoretical physicist, made groundbreaking contributions to quantum mechanics, most notably through the formulation of […]
Consciousness: Focusing on Christof Koch a Coworker of Francis Crick
Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And they ask you concerning the soul. Say, ‘The soul is by the command of my […]