RE: In your opinion what causes christians to believe in Jesus
May 18, 2025 at 12:16 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2025 at 12:17 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(May 17, 2025 at 7:46 pm)emjay Wrote: And the amount of correlational evidence is overwhelming, and anyone arguing the counter case that consciousness is independent of the brain... and I don't know if you are arguing that, but if you believe in an afterlife, I assume you must be to some extent... has to answer why they even have a brain and why physical interactions with it, such as brain damage and drugs, have reliable and predictable effects on consciousness.
As a Christian I'm a monist in terms of the mind-body problem, consciousness emerges out of complex processes and is inseparable from the brain.
But as a psychologist, I'm part of a newer school of thought that has begun to view consciousness as fundamental in the structure of reality, and that treats cognition not as locked inside a brain in a vat, but as embodied, embedded, enacted, and extended (what's called 4E cognition).
