Unbelievable? Classic: Sharon Dirckx vs Emily Qureshi-Hurst • Do consciousness and near-death experiences point to an afterlife?

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🗓️ 22 October 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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The Big Conversation - Episode 4 | Season 5 What should we make of accounts of “near death experiences”? Do they give credible support to the possibility that there is life after death, or can they be explained away as mere physical phenomena? Indeed, what is the connection between the brain, consciousness, and “the soul” (if it even exists)? Christian speaker and former neuroscientist Dr Sharon Dirckx, author of Am I Just My Brain?, engages with atheist philosopher Dr Emily Qureshi-Hurst, college lecturer and Junior Research Fellow at the University of Oxford and author of the book God, Salvation, and the Problem of Spacetime. Originally aired: Jul 2023 • Get our 'Confident Christianity' course: http://www.premier.org.uk/courseierchristianradio.com/... • Subscribe to the Unbelievable? podcast: https://pod.link/267142101 • More shows, free eBook & newsletter: https://premierunbelievable.com • For live events: http://www.unbelievable.live • For online learning: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/training • Support us in the USA: http://www.premierinsight.org/unbelievableshow • Support us in the rest of the world: https://www.premierunbelievable.com/donate

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0:00.0	I don't know how it happened like I'm just hanging out with my mates on the next
0:06.4	everything's messed up my dad left ages ago so it's just me and mom but I don't know it's hard I started hanging
0:18.6	around with the wrong people getting into stuff fights in that over nothing. I don't even know how to get out of it.
0:26.0	I don't want to keep doing this, but what else am I supposed to do?
0:31.5	Behind every door, the struggle is real.
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0:38.0	forward slash Premier. You're goingving back. Welcome to another unbelievable classic replay.
1:02.6	I'm Ruth Jackson, and this week we're delving back into the archives.
1:06.2	Let's jump in on today's discussion.
1:09.7	The mind and brain are connected, but the scientific data doesn't enable you to establish the nature of that connection or the relationship.
1:20.0	Just because science can't demonstrate that physical processes and mental processes are the same thing,
1:25.2	that in and of itself doesn't give you any evidence that that's not the case either.
1:28.5	Some people talk about seeing deceased relatives and communicating with them.
1:34.0	This idea of floating up out of your body and watching things happen and being able to describe it afterwards,
1:39.0	that could be formed in your imaginative mind.
1:42.0	Conscious experience and brain processes are two fundamentally different things.
1:46.6	I wonder if we're talking about...
1:48.3	If you'd like me to go out for a bit, you guys seem really happy. Hello and welcome to Unbelievable the show that gets Christians and non-Christians talking
1:59.8	and today we bring you episode 4 of the Big Conversation season 5. Today we're looking at the nature of the
2:06.8	human mind, brain, consciousness and near death experiences or NDEs for short. Do they point beyond the material world to an immaterial
2:16.6	self and even an afterlife? Discussing this topic will be Christian apologist and former
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