RE: The Brain=Mind Fallacy
June 1, 2012 at 3:56 pm
(This post was last modified: June 1, 2012 at 3:58 pm by fr0d0.)
(June 1, 2012 at 8:06 am)Ace Otana Wrote: It's a very complex subject. Even I'm having trouble understanding some parts. However after months of reading I've learnt quite a bit.
I remember someone mentioning an old 90's computer and that it could never be turned off because all the data in it would be lost. The computer had to be left on for the data to remain and that just like the human brain, if it ever shuts down all the information that makes you who you are and allows conciousness would be destroyed and so ultimately, you cease to exist. Seeing as all the years of data being stored would be destroyed through inactivity. We dream while sleeping to keep the brain active.
We are the brain and when it finally shuts down, it'll be the end of you. Does anyone find that....scary or worrying?
Strange that you support the OP here, and rail against it consciously.
There is some transference of thought, of what went to make you 'you'. ie you may have written things down, recorded some music, passed on some ideas... So that 'you' doesn't completely vanish like the unsalvageable computer.
The causation from the physical is evident, it can skip hosts. Physics describes one side of that process. I don't know what describes the other part, my eyes are closed to such nonsense
