the SOUL and its secular afterlife

There are neuroscientists and psychologists who suppose that we think inside our brains and send out our words. The science says they are mistaken. Only processes involving countless neurons go on in the brain. Grammar says they are mistaken. Only an indivisible person can say "I think..." This book points out that the idea of an internal human agent is that of the soul of Christianity. It charts its emergence out of the first four centuries, decline since the seventeenth and replacement from the turn of the twentieth. It guides the reader through original texts and scholarly work in theology, history, philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, paleoanthropology, animal studies and language. Paul, Augustine, Galileo, Descartes, Nietzsche, Freud, Chomsky, Wittgenstein and a number of psychologists and neuroscientists are among its sources.