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David Bentley Hart - Does Consciousness Defeat Materialism?

Theologian

David Bentley Hart


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12.20


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21 November 2023

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18 October 2025


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What would it take for consciousness to defeat materialism or physicalism? This is the worldview that only the physical is real, which is the dominant view of scientists and philosophers. Here’s what it would take: our inner awareness, our experience of what things feel like, could not be explained by physical brain alone That’s it. A tall order, though.

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David Bentley Hart is an American Orthodox Christian philosophical theologian, cultural commentator and polemicist.

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