More Than Matter

Rethinking Mind in a Physical World

By: Kevin L. Michel

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Is your mind more than matter? In a world measured by brain scans, algorithms, and physics, this book asks the question you feel from the inside. More Than Matter? Rethinking Mind in a Physical World is a clear, page-turning guide to the mystery of consciousness for anyone curious about what experience really is. From the redness of red to the ache of pain and the taste of coffee, it shows why subjective life remains the hardest thing to capture in third-person terms – and what that means for AI, medicine, and meaning. With vivid stories, plain-language explanations, and punchy thought experiments, you’ll tour competing answers: strict physicalism, emergent mind, panpsychism, dualism, and the claim that consciousness is an illusion. Along the way, you’ll visit cutting-edge labs, peek inside famous case studies, and see why brain data alone may not settle the debate. Rather than pushing a single dogma, the book equips you to weigh the evidence, spot common fallacies, and decide where you stand. Whether you’re a skeptic, a seeker, or simply mind-curious, you’ll finish with a sharper vocabulary, a practical map of the arguments, and a renewed sense of wonder about the most intimate fact of existence – the feeling of being you.