Post Debate Reflections: The Sound of One Hand Clapping

9 May 2014
Eben Alexander

The current online voting for Wednesday (May 7, 2014) night’s debate shows Dr. Moody and myself (Dr. Eben Alexander) victorious (currently 68:32, from 50:50 before the debate). I suspect that is related to the listener’s awareness that an audience of neuroscientists would have agreed with me, against Steven Novella, that no neuroscientist on earth can give the first sentence to explain a possible mechanism by which the physical brain creates consciousness (the Hard Problem of Consciousness see below). The brain is obviously tightly linked to consciousness the mistake is in believing, as I did before my coma (and the debate opponents Novella & Carroll still do), that the brain creates consciousness. He now knows otherwise.