RE: Questions for theists.
November 10, 2011 at 6:17 pm
(This post was last modified: November 10, 2011 at 6:24 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Who said "nothing happens", quite alot happens. The links I gave aren't nothing, are they? What I'm saying is that fairy tales don't happen. I say that because we have no reason to believe that they do and every reason to believe that they don't. We have no evidence that they do, and mountains of evidence that they don't.
What happens to consciousness when the brain ceases to function? Ever seen someone shot in the head with a parabellum round? That's what happens to consciousness when the brain ceases to function. Gone, dead, nothing, nada, radio silence. That our brains are the seat and source of consciousness has been demonstrated about as well as anything could be. We have never, in all of human experimentation, found a single disembodied consciousness. We have however observed drastic alterations in individuals who have suffered sever trauma to the brain (intentional or unintentional), and we have of course witnessed death. What we don't understand are the specifics, not the generalities. To use a very simple analogy. When you pick up the phone, even though you don't understand exactly how the phone is transmitting the message, you can say with certainty that it is the phone doing the work and not "dark magic".
What happens to consciousness when the brain ceases to function? Ever seen someone shot in the head with a parabellum round? That's what happens to consciousness when the brain ceases to function. Gone, dead, nothing, nada, radio silence. That our brains are the seat and source of consciousness has been demonstrated about as well as anything could be. We have never, in all of human experimentation, found a single disembodied consciousness. We have however observed drastic alterations in individuals who have suffered sever trauma to the brain (intentional or unintentional), and we have of course witnessed death. What we don't understand are the specifics, not the generalities. To use a very simple analogy. When you pick up the phone, even though you don't understand exactly how the phone is transmitting the message, you can say with certainty that it is the phone doing the work and not "dark magic".
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