RE: What Do You Believe Will Happen To You Once You Die?
April 15, 2014 at 7:09 pm
(This post was last modified: April 15, 2014 at 7:19 pm by Coffee Jesus.)
(April 15, 2014 at 6:26 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Without a physical brain, there is no mind.I wouldn't be able to give examples even if there were some. By "mind" I mean phenomenal experience, or qualia. I can test the idea that you have similar qualia by asking you about your qualia. If you lose the power to communicate, however, then I cannot test. If the ability to communicate entails [edit] some particular phenomenal experiences that are necessary for comunication, then I can never test for them individually with this test. or could I infer from the particular impairments in their communication? I'm kind of pulling this argument out of my ass. sorry[/edit]
All the evidence available points to the mind, including all that is you, ceases to exist once there is no brain.
Please point to one example of a mind existing absent a physical brain.
A neuroscientist may be able to rule out phenomenal experience for coma patients and such, but I wouldn't count on it, for we still don't know how the mind maps onto the brain, or how it supervenes on physical reality.