Neurosurgeon Michael Egnor takes on a materialist neurologist

Yale’s Steven Novella of NEUROLOGICAblog, here:

Consider Novella’s two main ideas:

“[This is] the illusion that our brains evolved to have, a very compelling and persistent illusion – namely that the reality we perceive is real, rather than a constructed representation.”

and

“[This research] just slaps us in the face with this reality.”

Novella refutes himself. He first asserts that everything he knows is an illusion. Then he insists that his illusions have slapped him in the face with reality.

Goodness gracious.

If everything we perceive is an illusion, then how can we “know” anything, including such ambitious knowledge as “everything we know is an illusion”?

Novella senses this problem with his thesis and tries to elide it:

Michael Egnor, “Tales of the mind: A neurologist encounters the house of mirrors” at Mind Matters News

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