# The Substance of Consciousness ![rw-book-cover](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61MGF3asMtL._SY160.jpg) ## Metadata - Author: [[Brandon Rickabaugh and J. P. Moreland]] - Full Title: The Substance of Consciousness - Category: #books ## Highlights - Mere Substance Dualism (SD): The human person (i) is comprised of a soul (a fundamental, immaterial/spiritual substance) and a physical body, (ii) capable of existing without a body, but not without his/her soul, and (iii) the mental life of which is possessed and unified by his/her soul. ([Location 1113](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CHN997JJ&location=1113)) - Note: Says design perspective ## New highlights added February 20, 2024 at 7:36 AM - All the evidence today suggests that strong emergence is scientifically irrelevant … We should accept brute natural phenomena only if we are convinced that they cannot be explained. The problem is that strong emergence seems like it can always be explained away.71 ([Location 2001](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0CHN997JJ&location=2001))