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Does terminal lucidity refute physicalism?

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Weir: When the Dying Wake: What Terminal Lucidity Reveals psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-mind-body-problem/202510/when-the-dying-wake-what-terminal-lucidity-reveals

Murray: Can Science Reckon With the Human Soul? wsj.com/opinion/can-science-reckon-with-the-human-soul-76cdb7b6?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqe3KBQBgtlRtnRgvgLdwZch5yIkwtbZFJvpBDWEX-okArZ-AnVAmkezKGBpG7s=&gaa_ts=6903cc6f&gaa_sig=u53VFd9xzPdBoo3Bd2A3LLEoYEW1GcqpYeqNvaStbRLpAFgaolVEG6YizFRXo_7EdJbNJ9jKi-zEhAc6wHBKgA==&mod=article_inline

Coyne: Angry Babbling whyevolutionistrue.com/2025/10/27/charles-murray-finds-god-loses-rationality-gets-criticized-by-steven-pinker-and-michael-shermer

Pinker: Charles Murray’s Unscientific Case for the Soul wsj.com/opinion/charles-murrays-unscientific-case-for-the-soul-pinker-brain-neuroscience-b5c76c86?mod=letterstoeditor_article_pos1&mod=article_inline

Murray: Pinker Whiffs at My Case for the Human Soul wsj.com/opinion/pinker-whiffs-at-my-case-for-the-human-soul-charles-murray-evidence-religion-6c9c8b55?gaa_at=eafs&gaa_n=AWEtsqc1ZhHxc0brll2VlpJ_ZLQpPAO8l7u__7uiyG3PNa-N6yk6Nn4GjRmYc3rFJPU=&gaa_ts=690a7b38&gaa_sig=wLi7Kuc_XhiTJSUpZvfNx3Sw_dTxFmGma_3XwKgjbXbU6yVcUFLh8ZJ-wkXJd6L95fJhT83576X5dpdlryDuWQ==&mod=article_inline

Batthyány: Setting the Terminal-Lucidity Record Straight wsj.com/opinion/setting-the-terminal-lucidity-record-straight-murray-pinker-3e9d649d?st=NGSTGM

Michael Shermer and Murray youtu.be/fUmtt6rTlZY?si=k3qDIrCBtG78CtSr

Jimmy Akin on TL youtu.be/EjwgrlJ9L7w?si=HPNoXj4PZeLQ-HXx

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00:00 Terminal Lucidity
4:07 Why the argument doesn't work
11:17 The soul and cognition
20:03 Bad responses to the argument