Imagination and the Supernatural | Laurence Scott

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Published on March 18, 2019 4:00:01 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p-AwpKdm80

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Ghosts, fairies, and spirits are all signs of our imaginations trying to create meaning - argues author of Picnic Comma Lightning, Laurence Scott.

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Laurence Scott's argument
- There are important limits to our understanding. We need narratives to create meaning.
- Some things cannot be empirically determined. We know so little about the brain at the moment.
- Our personal phenomenological responses to things are more important.
- We need ways to give meaning to the world beyond a naturalistic account.
- This can be supernatural beliefs, but also other projections such as nationhood.
- Science itself cannot provide an account of narrative.

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Laurence Scott: Award-winning writer and BBC New Generation Thinker, Scott is the author of Four-Dimensional Human and Picnic Comma Lightning: In Search of a New Reality. He has also written on fairies and folklore.

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