(November 21, 2021 at 6:50 am)Alan V Wrote: If minds are always dependent on living, functioning brains, then human immortality and God are impossible.
Certainly this would make God impossible if you are defining God as having a mind like a human being -- thinking, changing, operating through time. Literalist anthropomorphism wouldn't survive.
If, however, you argue with the Platonists that God's mind is the world of Forms, or with Aristotelians for unchanging universals, or with just about every other theologian I know who says that God is ideal, unchanging, immaterial, transcendental, then the type of mind you're talking about wouldn't be relevant to God's mind.
Then there are the followers of Boehme, Blake, and Hegelians who resemble them, who say that God's mind only manifests through human minds. So physical-brain-dependency wouldn't bother them.
In modern philosophical terms, human and animal minds are said to consist of Popper's World 2. God, on the other hand, is World 3.
This is not simply denial, but based in very ancient arguments concerning what a necessary being would be like.
