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#375 What Is the Mind? The Catholic View - Jimmy Akin

Catholic Answers Focus

Catholic Answers

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2021

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

We ask Jimmy Akin, apologist and host of Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World, whether there is a Catholic way to understand the mind. Jimmy reviews some of the current thinking about what the mind is, and explains what a Catholic can, and cannot, accept. Cy Kellett: What is a mind anyway? Jimmy Akin is next. Hello and welcome to Focus, the Catholic Answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, very glad you are here with us. Hey, right up front, let me just say if you could maybe like and subscribe if you’re watching on Yo...

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What is a mind anyway, Jimmy Aiken, is next.

0:07.7

Hello and welcome to Focus the Cat Dance

0:09.5

with Podcasts for Living, Understanding,

0:11.6

and Defending Your Catholic Faith.

0:13.2

I'm Sy Kelly, your host, very glad you are here with us.

0:16.4

And hey, right up front, let me just say,

0:18.1

if you could maybe like and subscribe,

0:20.4

if you're watching on YouTube,

0:21.6

that really helps to grow the podcast.

0:23.1

And if you're listening on one of the podcast services,

0:25.2

Apple Spotify's Stitcher,

0:26.9

then this would be a great time to subscribe,

0:29.1

so you'll be notified as new episodes come out.

0:31.5

And if you're willing, give us that five star review

0:33.5

and a few nice words that helps to grow the podcast.

0:36.4

This time we talk with Jimmy Aiken about the mind.

0:38.8

One of the strange things about being humans

0:41.6

is we can't exactly for sure say what we are.

0:45.6

We get a lot of insight from faith.

0:48.2

We get a lot of insight from reason.

0:50.3

God has revealed certain things to us

0:53.2

through the scriptures and through the person of Jesus

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