RE: The brain
June 4, 2018 at 5:17 pm
(This post was last modified: June 4, 2018 at 5:19 pm by Alan V.)
(June 4, 2018 at 1:25 pm)Drich Wrote:(June 2, 2018 at 4:28 pm)Thoreauvian Wrote: If Drich is saying all atheists have faith on this subject, he is most certainly over-generalizing. I used to believe in the brain-as-a-receiver-of-consciousness idea when I was studying mysticism, but a closer study of the science changed my mind on the topic. I was especially influenced by sleep and dream researcher Dr. Allan Hobson's many books about how the chemistry of conscious states influences their perceived content. The brain-as-receiver idea is entirely uneconomical and unnecessary, given what we now know from brain and consciousness studies.
AGAIN, IF I provide scientific evidence that the brain sends and receive a signal from a different place (call it, a different dimension call it heaven call it the matrix or whatever your twist is) and despite this hard scientific evidence that I could produce, you continue to believe as you do now despite the scientific proof provided... You do so as a matter of faith.
Sorry for the confusion, but I was talking to Matilda rather than to you, since I was confident she had enough background information about brain science to understand what I meant. I know her from the Thinking Atheist forum.
No, I won't bother myself to refute you. That's up to you, if you are interested in actually studying the science.