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What does it mean to be human? What is a person? Where did we come from?

Brent talks with Joshua Rasmussen about his new IVP book ‘Who Are You, Really?: A Philosopher’s Enquiry into the Nature and Origin of Persons’.

Joshua is associate professor of philosophy at Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, California in the States.

• (1:05) Who are we?
• (2:05) Why do we exist?
• (4:00) Why should we exist?
• (6:30) How do our personal realities relate to reality?
• (9:10) How much can we really know?
• (11:45) What role do feelings have for us?
• (13:00) How do we make thoughts?
• (13:50) Freedom of choice;
• (16:10) Our bodies;
• (18:50) How do we make a conscious being?
• (23:45) Artificial intelligence and robotics.

Links mentioned in this episode:

www.ivpress.com

www.amazon.com/Who-Are-You-Really-Philosophers/dp/1514003945

www.joshualrasmussen.com

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