(September 21, 2019 at 8:21 am)Belaqua Wrote:(September 21, 2019 at 8:07 am)Jehanne Wrote: Your brain is electrochemical, in fact, it's about 20 watts (joules per second) of energy (25 when having sex or watching football, if you are male). When your EEG shows zero activity, you will be dead.
So you have some reason to believe that a soul, if it existed, is a product of the brain? Or that it is in some way connected with the use of electricity?
I think what you say is probably true of mind. Mind -- whatever it is -- depends on a functioning brain, and the brain uses electrochemical interactions.
So I guess if you could show that mind and soul are the same thing you'd have proved your point.
I am a materialist, and so, I think that your mind ("you") is entirely and completely the activity of your brain, nothing more. When you die someday, you will cease to exist. Think of death as an endless, dreamless "sleep" from which one will never, ever awake.
