Thank you for responding!just opinions based on misinformation — Sam26
There's certainly no need for that! I have never connected consciousness to religion. It's a purely philosophical subject (e.g. Philosopy of Mind). So, this idea belongs to the "misinformation" that you are mentioning.I haven't found that one needs to believe anything religious in order to believe that consciousness is not dependent on brain activity — Sam26
Exactly. I have mentioned this quite a few times (with different words, of course) and it is also what I said above about "prejudice". If misinformation is an obtacle to knowledge, prejudice is a huge obtacle!People get wrapped up in their worldviews, which locks them into their ideologies — Sam26
dogmatically they cling to the claim even when everyone else thinks they're nuts might be a good place to start, especially when they stand to lose something by saying so and have nothing to gain. — MikeL
There's also the concept of an unembodied mind:their (apparent) delusions about living for ever and ever, — Michael Zwingli
However, how can I say someone else is conscious based on this kind of subjective experience? After all, I'm only aware of my own consciousness, of my own inner experiences. — Sam26
There's also the concept of an unembodied mind: — Wheatley
My my,posters are awfully dogmatic about life ending at material death.
One wonders at the "scientific" evidence for such "certainty"? — Ambrosia
Are you for real? I eat materislists like you up for breakfast!!!
Your compassion is touching but wrong fella mister! — Ambrosia
Anyway,why you so sure of the end of conciousness when you have zero experience of it? — Ambrosia
Even so, I have never considered the preposterous notion that I did not exist during those hours of sleep. — Michael Zwingli
By inference. We presume that others are just like ourselves. I think it’s a perfectly valid presumption. ‘I know how you must feel…’ ‘I can’t imagine how you must feel…’ and other such statements are intelligible statements. — Wayfarer
what strikes you as preposterous about that? — bert1
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