Robert Arvay, “The Vital Question that Physical Science Can Never Answer,” puts the case that the materialist view tht the mind is just the brain, is fundamentally mistaken. It is like studying the creation of music, by solely looking at the physical musical instruments. Agreed, but the materialist view dominates the modern university, and cognitive science departments move ahead with computer models of the brain, that presumably explain the mind, if the mind is accepted to exist at all over mere behavioural responses. This reductionism rejects the existence of the soul as well, since the existence of a soul, a non-material spiritual entity, is contrary to the entire paradigm.
While it is useful to argue against the thesis of reductionist materialism, it is worth recognising that this ideology is not pure science based, and just like neo-classical economics serves globalist interests. It is a philosophy accepted by the likes of the World Economic Forum, as it permits transhumanism a free reign. If man is a machine, not made in the image of God, then they see themselves free to play God.
