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What Do You Believe Will Happen To You Once You Die?
RE: What Do You Believe Will Happen To You Once You Die?
(April 15, 2014 at 6:26 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Without a physical brain, there is no mind.

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.
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]
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.
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RE: What Do You Believe Will Happen To You Once You Die? - by Coffee Jesus - April 15, 2014 at 7:09 pm

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