(October 27, 2014 at 1:53 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(October 27, 2014 at 12:00 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Follow the evidence. The mind/personality/conscience of people is tied exclusively to the brain: when the brain stops functioning, the mind stops too; trauma to the brain can change the mind and personality; drugs can change mind and personality. There is no evidence of a mind/personality at all outside or apart from the brain.Actually, there is no evidence for a physical link between brain states and mental properties despite strong correlations between the two. Even if you posit a mysterious “emergent property”, nothing prevents it from actualizing non-locally apart from a specific physical structure.
I didn't say we knew how the brain works, only that there is as you say a strong correlation between the brain and mental states, not to mention an absolute correlation between a working brain and any mental state at all. There is nothing that makes mental states "actualizing non-locally" i.e. outside the brain remotely likely. It hasn't happened in all of human history.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.