Neuroscience and the soul: competing explanations for the human experience.
Cognition April 1, 2013 Jesse Lee Preston, Ryan S Ritter, Justin Hepler
The development of fMRI techniques has generated a boom of neuroscience research across the psychological sciences, and revealed neural correlates for many psychological phenomena seen as central to the human experience (e.g., morality, agency). Meanwhile, the rise of neuroscience has reignited old debates over mind-body dualism and the soul. While some scientists use neuroscience to bolster a...