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Irreducible Mind

Disciplines:
philosophy of mind
parapsychology
neuroscience
consciousness/consciousness studies

Summary

Edward Kelly et al.'s 2007 800-page scholarly work arguing that the standard neuroscientific model of mind (consciousness as produced by the brain) is falsified by the evidence — including near-death experiences, psychical research, and exceptional human experiences — and that William James's 'transmission model' is better supported.

Core Contribution

Provides the most comprehensive scholarly case that consciousness is not generated by the brain but transmitted or filtered through it — drawing on Myers's Human Personality and Its Survival of Bodily Death, parapsychological data, and neuroscientific anomalies — making it the most rigorous work in the tradition of psi research.

Historical Influences

Edward Kelly

Intellectual Lineage

Edward Kelly et al. ResearchDivision of Perceptual Studies William James tradition

Allied Works

Beyond Physicalism Varieties of Religious Experience Human Personality

Contemporaries & Peers

Beyond Physicalism Mind and the Cosmic Order

Minds Influenced

Consciousness studies Parapsychology Jonathan Bi

Intellectual Posterity

Irreducible Mind Transmission modelUVA parapsychology research

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