Is consciousness reducible to brain chemistry?

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I’m in my 50s now, and practice medicine. I’ve been thinking about this for at least three decades and this is one of the clearest explanations I’ve heard. Maybe it hit me at just the right time. In fact, just prior to watching this, I was asking the Blessed Mother for clarity on some issues I most need to understand. Wow.

A summary: Animals also have souls, cats just have too much soul

Just wanted to leave a comment from a non denominational Protestant Christian. ……I love your videos!!  I follow you and really enjoy your content. You haven’t convinced me that Catholicism is the way to go but I always learn things and appreciate your hard work and devotion to our Lord Jesus Christ. 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼❤️. Thanks Brian!

I'd like to add a bit of nuance for Catholics who lean or are vegan: while animals can't enjoy the Beatific vision because of the imago dei, there is nothing stopping God from putting them in a kind of Eden situation at the end of time. When you consider the plight of factory farmed animals, and that God's Justice is perfect, and that Paul says all of Creation groans for the end, it seems logical that God would make right for chickens in the next world what was made wrong in this world without them needing to ascend to angelic heights.

I saw that first with my dog, then with my father.

Best introduction to Aristotle and Aquinas I've ever seen. Good work. God bless.

Hi Brian I listen to you and I have been for a while. I’m 79 and cradle Catholic and very into my faith and etc. etc. etc.

Several of us used to go to the defending the faith conferences at Steubenville in the past.

We were living in the diocese of Arlington which was in Virginia and we drove there and we had a wonderful wonderful time every time we went.

It’s nice to see you younger people getting into this again.

I enjoy watching you and I think it’s very important to discuss the faith with whoever wants to and the searching and seeking and loves God

With all respect I have to say I have not been totally comfortable with MF. I have watched you both since you started YouTube.

I’ve had addiction in my family and sadly MF has been seen on his YouTube smoking cigars and drinking something I think? But not being a good example for people watching.

Especially young people there’s a problem out there with alcohol and addiction and they once span cigarettes but people are smoking plenty of things right now.

I just want to say that I guess things go in cycles. But there’s addiction everywhere and it’s messing with a lot of things.

I find it really awful that people are on the Internet and YouTube who are supposedly Catholics? And they are promoting just by visuals what they’re doing. Which is not healthy in their spirit or body.

Perhaps these people need to have tragedies happen in their family which I hope they don’t.

But I have a ton of grandkids and more and I see how influence they are by things like this and I’m very disturbed that my Catholic YouTube speakers do not understand that.

So this is where I have to let go and pray

I’ve seen too much heartache and suffering because of that I pray for the day when alcohol drugs cigars cigarettes etc. Are not GODS for people anymore

AA and all sorts of treatments help and the 12 steps are the most helpful of all

The 12 steps in my humble opinion every single human being should do because our world would be a different place.

I had to say this because I really like you and I appreciate that you don’t promote that stuff on your YouTube station

I can’t control what people do in private but I can say when you go out there and do things that are not OK for public consumption then don’t do it.

Just saying. God bless you and check out those priest on top they’re amazing

I work in healthcare and when we are doing CPR, you can usually tell when the patient is not coming back. Look at the eyes. The spark is gone and you only see a dead cloudiness. This also applies to people who have cataracts, you can tell the difference. I see the change but only the doctor can call, it so we keep doing rounds of CPR for another 30 minutes.

Thanks! THIS WAS ONE OF YOUR BEST YET! VERY IMPORTANT STUFF IN THIS! I LEFT A COMMENT EARLIER AND I APPRECIATE YOU BRIAN I THINK YOU DO A GREAT JOB. THANK YOU SO MUCH🎉

When I had to have my dog euthanized, I knew the exact moment he passed. I could tell the exact moment he went from living to the soul was gone.

I agree more with Jimmy Akin than Thomas Aquinas on souls: animals have souls that live on after physical death.

Given my own out of body experience once, I’m inclined to agree.

People are beautiful trinities  -  Soul , Mind and Body.  People also have 7 senses  - 5 physical,  our intellect and the most important our Spirit ❤❤❤

You da man, Brian!

Many thanks Brian.

Excellent video, sir.

That was an edifying summary of the Philosophy of Mind. I needed the refresher. The car 🚗 analogies were great!

Top tier content as always and a little more comedy mixed in this time 😄

Well said.