Michael Egnor X Christof Koch X Michael Shermer | A Debate on the Mind, Soul, and the Afterlife

You're listening to The Michael Shermer Show. All right, everybody, it's time for another episode of the Michael Shermer Show. Hey, we've got a special episode for you today. You are not going to believe this. One of the most important and interesting topics there is.

The nature of the soul, the mind, consciousness, where does it all go? What happens after we die? My guest today, and this is going to be a debate format, as it were, uh, between two authors who have thought a lot, uh, long and hard about this, both professional scientists. The first one is Michael Egnor. Here's his new book.

The Immortal Mind, let me give it a proper introduction in total here. He is a medical doctor, professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at the Renaissance School of Medicine at Stonebrook University. He received his medical degree from the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University and trained in neurosurgery at the University of Miami. He's been on the faculty at Stony Brook since 1991, and he's the neurosurgery residence director and served as the director of pediatric neurosurgery and as vice chairman of neurosurgery at Stony Brook Medicine. Oh my god.

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