{"id":165832,"date":"2023-06-15T17:24:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-15T22:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/keith-ward-why-is-consciousness-so-mysterious"},"modified":"2023-06-15T17:24:53","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T22:24:53","slug":"keith-ward-why-is-consciousness-so-mysterious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/keith-ward-why-is-consciousness-so-mysterious","title":{"rendered":"Keith Ward \u2014 Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/r584SOuwwyI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains \u2018experience\u2019 the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love? How can sparks of brain electricity and flows of brain chemicals literally be these felt experiences or be \u2018about\u2019 things that have external meaning? How can consciousness be explained?<\/p>\n<p>Free access to Closer To Truth\u2019s library of 5,000 videos: <a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN\">http:\/\/bit.ly\/376lkKN<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Support the show with Closer To Truth merchandise: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3P2ogje\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3P2ogje<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch more interviews on the mystery of consciousness: <a href=\"https:\/\/rb.gy\/sxtbb\">https:\/\/rb.gy\/sxtbb<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Keith Ward is a British philosopher, theologian, pastor and scholar. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and (since 1972) an ordained priest of the Church of England. He was a canon of Christ Church, Oxford until 2003. Comparative theology and the relationship between science and religion are two of his main topics of interest.<\/p>\n<p>Register for free at <a href=\"http:\/\/CTT.com\">CTT.com<\/a> for subscriber-only exclusives: <a href=\"https:\/\/bit.ly\/3He94Ns.\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/3He94Ns.<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/keith-ward-why-is-consciousness-so-mysterious\">Continue reading \u201cKeith Ward \u2014 Why is Consciousness so Mysterious?\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can the mindless microscopic particles that compose our brains \u2018experience\u2019 the setting sun, the Mozart Requiem, and romantic love? How can sparks of brain electricity and flows of brain chemicals literally be these felt experiences or be \u2018about\u2019 things that have external meaning? How can consciousness be explained? Free access to Closer To Truth\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,47,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience","category-particle-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}