Last week, we posed a series of questions designed to make us think about a unique capacity common among human beings but nonexistent in the rest of the animal kingdom. That excellent characteristic is termed the duality of man. The 18th-century philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said, “If we liken the human brain to a factory, we could see any number of movable parts, but we could never see the thinking itself.” Unsurprisingly, the Darwinists have no answer as to where self-consciousness comes from. Although all people, believers and non-believers alike, agree that there is an immaterial mind, the problem for the Darwinist seems to be that there is no logical, scientific way to explain where self-consciousness comes from or how it could have evolved from inert atoms in the animal brain. Yet self-consciousness very much exists all the same.
Columns & Opinion
July 25, 2025
A Mind and Body