RE: What Do You Believe Will Happen To You Once You Die?
April 15, 2014 at 1:08 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2014 at 1:08 pm by Simon Moon.)
(April 15, 2014 at 10:49 am)Coffee Jesus Wrote: I misunderstood you, Simon Moon.
No problem.
Quote:Care to share some examples of people having their hard-drives formatted after some gnarly brain damage?
If by 'hard-drives' formatted, you are implying a mind that is completely erased, that not what I said. I said personality reset.
There are plenty of examples from medical literature. One of the first studied was Phineas P. Gage.
But I have an example in my own family. My uncle's second wife had a concussion that caused bleeding in her frontal lobe. This damage caused her personality to completely change to the point where she is not the same person.
Some of the most interesting cases involve corpus callosotomy surgery for treating epilepsy. This is where the corpus callosum is cut between the 2 hemispheres of the brain. Each hemisphere will have completely different personalities.
There's even cases where one hemi is a theist, the other an atheist. What will happen to a person with this condition after they die?
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.