(April 5, 2012 at 5:06 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote:(April 5, 2012 at 5:02 pm)mediamogul Wrote:(April 5, 2012 at 4:56 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: What if your memories go with the consciousness and remain dormant until a certain point where your cycle of reincarnation ends? There's a thought.
I have literally seen a persons memory dissappear through traumatic brain injury. Their personality changed. They were completely different. All those functions are utterly dependant upon brain function. That was my previous point. I just don't see it. Consciousness contains no information.
That's horrible. A more minor version happened to my mom when she was young. Accident changed her a lot apparently. I can see that point.
But the consciousness and soul could be considered backup. Might not be completely connected to the mind.
Then there's the incredible case of Phineas Gage.
(April 5, 2012 at 6:36 pm)Adjusted Sanity Wrote: Also my statement is true. You can be an atheist by definition and still believe in a soul. Athiest has a definition. If the definition of athiest was someone who does not believe in unproven phenomena then your statement would be true.
Right. What you're describing would more correctly be scepticism (or skepticism if you really must
) of which atheism is a specialised branch.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
