(November 2, 2015 at 11:13 am)Evie Wrote: The problem you have is you keep assuming consciousness is for some reason the exception to the rest of physical reality, you're making special pleading and where is your evidence?
But even if consciousness was non-physical it still is not abstract and is the one thing we are able to sense for sure.
My other point still remain, but I guess you're gonna keep cherry picking like a true theist.
Didn't i say that the illusion play the trick?
We are stuck in this physical body so it seem that we are the body but the consciousness is not physical.
Two different entities go hand in hand as the life goes on.
Most atheists believe that as death occur both body and consciousness die while believers think that as the physical death occur the soul or the consciousness leave the body because the consciousness never die.
NDEs already prove that this is the case but atheists think that this is no evidence at all.
To believe that the consciousness die as the body die is like to believe that the driver of a vehicle die as the vehicle rot away.
It just doesn't make any sense.
Philosophers of all ages try to understand this point so a myriads of theories are there for all to see and believe or not believe.
The problems with most of these theories is however that these people have never engaged themselves with the science of spirituality so most of these theories are just personal ideas.
The concept of consciousness is notoriously ambiguous. It is important first to make several distinctions and to define related terms. The abstract noun “consciousness” is not often used in the contemporary literature, though it should be noted that it is originally derived from the Latin con (with) and scire (to know)................
http://www.iep.utm.edu/consciou/