(February 1, 2020 at 6:57 am)Rahn127 Wrote: If we had some kind of soul that could sense anything at all, then we would never have a state we refer to as unconsciousness.
Yeah, good point. I mean, it's the variation on the theme "How come brain damage prevents a person from doing what the soul is supposed to do?". Now, I guess a religious person will respond with "Well, the soul communicates with the eyes using the brain. That's why, if the back part of the brain is damaged or temporarily doesn't work (because of alcohol...), the soul can't see." (As if it didn't seem that the memories and reasoning are also products of the brain, and not just seeing or hearing).
Maybe a better formulation would be: "If the mind is not dependent on the brain, how come it is that people who have been unconscious can't tell how long they have been unconscious?". I mean, if souls were real, we would expect that, when a person wakes from being unconscious, he or she either remembers leaving their own bodies, or that he or she remembers facing silent darkness. We wouldn't expect a person who has been unconscious not to remember anything at all.
