Page 151 - Darwin's Dilemma: The Soul

Harun Yahya (Adnan Oktar)

This is a baffling state of affairs for materialists, who look
somewhere in the brain for all those elements that make human
beings human—joys, doubts, beliefs and personal identity. They
maintain that emotions such as the happiness when we greet a
friend, the excitement when we see a puppy, belief, feeling, decid-
ing, sentimentality, rejoicing and sorrow—all stem from neurons.
However, scientists and neurologists who investigate the brain
have failed to find the source of any of these. For that reason, they
have come up with a new definition, saying that the source of what
makes human beings human is “consciousness.”
But what is consciousness? And how can materialists account
for it?

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