(June 22, 2016 at 10:19 am)Little Rik Wrote:(June 22, 2016 at 9:44 am)Jörmungandr Wrote: You're just asserting that the mind is abstract. What evidence besides NDEs do you have that the mind is intangible?
This is nothing but a bunch of fictitious claptrap. Suppose God exist. Suppose Peter Pan can fly. Suppose Santa is real.
Gemini said there is no objective evidence and you haven't provided any. All you've got is a 'what if'.
Stories about how God must be aren't evidence of anything. All you've got is the bare claim that she is wrong.
And that doesn't amount to spit.
We know that humans got a mind but we can not see it touch it, smell it and so on.
This is just a bare assertion. In cerebral achromotopsia (color blindness), some patients lose the ability to experience color. It's not that they simply can't perceive color. They can no longer remember scenes with color, and they can't imagine a colored object. This is a result of trauma to the brain which has affected a component of consciousness. It would seem that a component of consciousness is physically accessible after all.
That we haven't succeeded in localizing consciousness in the brain is not evidence that it cannot be localized and henceforth measured and manipulated as any tangible object can. All you have is negative evidence and that makes it an argument from ignorance.
(June 22, 2016 at 10:19 am)Little Rik Wrote: Abstract things can not be perceived by physical senses that doesn't mean that they do not exist.
To perceive abstract things such as God we need something else and that is a developed consciousness.
All the rest will not work.
More bare assertions. This again is not evidence that consciousness is intangible.