01:07:24 min
CLEAR ALL
Current mainstream opinion in psychology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind holds that all aspects of human mind and consciousness are generated by physical processes occurring in brains. Views of this sort have dominated recent scholarly publication.
What I will focus on are the psychological factors that influence people’s judgments about what is real and how these might explain why people come to believe in the existence of such beings.
Neuroscientist David Eagleman explores the processes and skills of the subconscious mind, which our conscious selves rarely consider.