Many philosophers and neuroscientists have hypothesized a mind outside matter.
This argument is used in the debate Does God exist?.
This argument is an objection to The existence of a mind outside matter goes against our neurological knowledge.
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“Several approaches are available.
One, based on materialism, postulates no divine or other project in consciousness. This approach is well represented by Richard Dawkins.
Another admits, in various variants, the existence of a possible immaterial world, or "world of ideas". These include Denys Turner, Sir John Eccles, Roland Omnès and Alain Connes.
A third is that of Daniel Dennett.
For the sake of completeness, we should also mention Roger Penrose, for the originality of his views, which stand out from the three previous ones (he admits the existence of a world of ideas, while placing it within a physical/mathematical framework, thus in fine materialist).
Approaches outside pure materialism are still considered marginal to this day day, 2006.
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