RE: Modal Argument: The Mind is Not the Brain
October 8, 2013 at 9:45 pm
(This post was last modified: October 8, 2013 at 9:48 pm by Bucky Ball.)
(October 8, 2013 at 2:29 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: NDE’s exemplify mental activity in the absence of a functioning brain. Some of these have been very well documented. It seems the only reason for dismissing them is because they do not fit the current materialist paradigm. There is also the strange case of John Lorber. Lorber had a measured IQ of 126, yet CAT scans revealed that he had only 10% of normal brain volume. Sure he still had a brain, but not much of one.
Wrong. Dr. Lorber was the DOCTOR. His cases were never published, or peer reviewed, including your's, which has been perfectly explained.
http://cogsci.stackexchange.com/question...s-been-fur
There are many instances of "savants".
Your examples ALL have at least partially functioning brains.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Savant_syndrome
NDE's have also been explained. There is no instance of mental activity, in the absence of a brain.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/08/...xperiences
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