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[Serious] What is the current best scientific evidence we have that shows that consciousness...
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RE: What is the current best scientific evidence we have that shows that consciousness...
(January 12, 2025 at 1:32 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: The best current evidence that consciousness ends in death, as a positivist assertion, comes from the damage that consciousness appears to suffer in life, as a consequence of damage to the brain.

Bingo. Phineas Gage, TBIs, severing the corpus collosum surgically, prefrontal lobotomies, they all point to the ties between mental consciousness and the physical substrate of the brain.

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RE: What is the current best scientific evidence we have that shows that consciousness... - by Thumpalumpacus - January 12, 2025 at 9:53 pm

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