'Are We Our Brains? Neuroscience And The Soul' | Doctor Paul LaPenna

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🗓️ 8 November 2023

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Dr. Paul LaPenna is a neurologist in Greenville, SC and Associate Professor of Neurology at the Edward Via College of Osteopathic Medicine, Carolinas Campus. Dr. LaPenna completed his neurology residency at Indiana University School of Medicine in 2018. As a neurohospitalist, Dr. LaPenna’s skill set is focused on treatment of neurological emergencies and performing and interpreting electrophysiological studies of the brain and peripheral nervous system. As an Associate Professor of Neurology, Dr. LaPenna has won numerous teaching awards, including Clinical Medicine Professor of the neuroscience curriculum in 2019, 2020, and 2021. For the 2020-2021 academic year, Dr. LaPenna was awarded the Preceptor of the Year. For his care towards patients, he was elected to the Arnold P. Gold Humanism Honor Society in 2016. Dr. LaPenna has an interest in the relationship between science and faith—in particular, the relationship between neuroscience and the soul, the overreaching claims of science, and the dignity of the human person, to name a few. Saint Thomas Aquinas has been a major influence in Dr. LaPenna’s intellectual and faith journey.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Tomistic Institute podcast.
0:06.8	Our mission is to promote the Catholic intellectual tradition in the university, the church, and the wider public square.
0:13.1	The lectures on this podcast are organized by university students at Temistic Institute chapters around the world.
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0:29.6	Okay, well thanks for welcoming me here to Clemson.
0:34.9	It's a beautiful campus.
0:36.0	I've been here before as an athlete when I was in college, but it's good to be back here. It's a beautiful campus. I've been here before as an athlete when I was in
0:38.1	when I was in college, but it's good to be back here. It's been many years. But yeah, so today
0:45.3	I'm going to be talking about neuroscience and me talking about can we reduce a human person to their
0:51.3	brain? Can we reduce a human person to their soul? What exactly
0:54.4	is a human person? What does science have to say about this? Is science sufficient to speak on these
0:59.1	matters? So these are like some of the things. It's going to be fairly broad. And it's intentionally
1:04.6	broad just to get people thinking about these. And then if you have questions, you want to narrow in
1:09.8	on certain things. Please is a Q&A
1:12.6	section and I'll answer questions for as long as I can to the best of my ability so when I was
1:19.1	in high school that's when I really first started getting interested in science my senior year of
1:25.3	high school we actually were one of the only schools in the country that had organic chemistry.
1:30.8	So I got to take, it was called Advanced Topics of Chemistry.
1:33.9	So I got to take organic chemistry and physical chemistry to some extent, not what you would do here, and biochemistry.
1:41.9	So we're going to do this advanced science program.
1:45.0	And I really loved it. I started to fall in love with the sciences.
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