Ted Talk: What hallucinations reveal about our minds and revelations
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Hallucinations—perceptual experiences occurring without corresponding external stimuli—pose significant challenges to materialist and naturalist frameworks, which assert that all […]
Communicatio idiomatum: Christian Attempt to Understand Mystery of Two Natures of Jesus
Communicatio idiomatum (Latin: communication of properties) is a Christological[a] concept about the interaction of deity and humanity in the person of Jesus Christ. It maintains that in view of the unity of Christ’s person, his human and divine attributes and experiences might properly be referred to his other nature so […]
Schrodinger’s Cat to Show Us, Marvel of God’s Creation and Our Consciousness
Epigraph: We will show them Our Signs in the universe and also among their own selves, until it becomes manifest to them that the Quran is the truth. (Al Quran […]
The meta-problem of consciousness
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The meta-problem of consciousness examines why we perceive consciousness as enigmatic and challenging to explain. Philosopher David J. Chalmers defines it as “the problem of explaining why we think that there is a problem of consciousness.” PhilPapers Distinguishing […]
JP Moreland’s Exposition of Human Consciousness, Free Will and Soul
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times James Porter Moreland (born March 9, 1948), better known as J. P. Moreland, is an American philosopher, theologian, and Christian apologist. He is […]
Quranic Challenge to the Atheists: Restore the Soul of the Dying Man, If You Can?
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times Majority of the European countries are now atheists. If we do surveys of the leading scientists, mathematicians and […]
What is the Nature of Personal Identity and Its Implication on Afterlife?
Epigraph Can man not see that We created him from a drop of fluid? Yet– lo and behold!– he disputes openly, producing arguments against Us, forgetting his own creation. He […]
David Bentley Hart: An Insightful Eastern Orthodox theologian and philosopher
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There is so much common in the Abrahamic faiths, between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The believers often dwell […]
Prof. Bernard Carr, cosmologist and friend of Hawking, on consciousness and parapsychology
Studying Consciousness: Are the Gaps in Our Understanding God-of-the-Gaps or A Profound Proof for God? Epigraph: وَيَسْأَلُونَكَ عَنِ الرُّوحِ ۖ قُلِ الرُّوحُ مِنْ أَمْرِ رَبِّي وَمَا أُوتِيتُم مِّنَ الْعِلْمِ إِلَّا قَلِيلًا And […]
Consciousness: Would We Ever Completely Know It?
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 […]
Hibernation: How It Helps the Quranic Metaphor Between Sleep and Death
Epigraph: Allah takes away the souls of human beings at the time of their death; and of those also that are not yet dead, during their sleep. And then He retains those against which […]
Studying Consciousness: Are the Gaps in Our Understanding God-of-the-Gaps or A Profound Proof for God?
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 […]
Can Every Quantum Particle be Proto-Conscious in An Atheist World View?
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 […]
Panpsychism: Can it explain human 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 Lord; and of the knowledge thereof you have been given but a little.’ (Al Quran 17:85) Written and collected by Zia […]
Different Philosophers Arguing God from Consciousness
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God that claims characteristics of human consciousness (such as qualia) cannot be explained by the physical […]
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 the command of my […]
A Question of Time: Why AI Will Never Be Conscious
A computer with AI cannot replicate the dynamics of a conscious brain. By Marc Wittmann Ph.D. Sense of Time Source: Psychology Today Posted August 3, 2024 | Reviewed by Margaret Foley Key points […]