(February 19, 2014 at 11:50 am)Sword of Christ Wrote:(February 19, 2014 at 11:20 am)Alex K Wrote: My point was that these memories can be formed while going into or leaving this inactive state. You can't tell the difference because when the brain is shutting down, the memory of perception of time passed gets completely skewed.
Or alternatively consciousness isn't dependent on matter but instead is interactive with matter.
Fine - now test for that. Don't just assert it as a possible alternative and then leave it at that.
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.'
