(October 28, 2023 at 10:42 am)Dmitry1983 Wrote:(October 28, 2023 at 10:14 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: That's because they're idiots. Brain damage will always change consciousness to one degree or another. Anyone who has worked with a TBI patient -- as opposed to making baseless assertions at a college lectern -- would know this.
Find us one of these "philosophers" who would submit to being brain-damaged on this premise that it would not change them. Just one, that'll do.
The brain could be a transceiver. Breaking your phone doesn't affect a person you are talking to.
Turnabout is fair play. If what happens to the brain cannot affect the person, then the person, likewise, cannot affect the brain, and the Cartesian cut is an impenetrable gulf.