(January 7, 2018 at 9:17 am)Little Rik Wrote: Gee VL, you are an infinite source of knowledge.
Can you please help LR to understand by showing the evidence that when..................... that brain dies, you will never laugh or love again.....
I'll break it down Rik-style for ya...
When you die it's like
There's probably no heaven where you get to meet your cat Fluffy that you had when you were six.
Or Hell where you'll meet your gay uncle Jim.
Our mind's find it difficult to conceive of non-consciousness or oblivion, so it's easy to imagine life going on somehow.
And this may be correct. Ultimately, I'm agnostic about whether there is an afterlife.
But since neuroscientists observerve a causal link between the activity of a living brain and consciousness experience, it is reasonable to assume that all such conscious experience ceases when brain activity ceases.