(April 16, 2014 at 6:38 pm)Coffee Jesus Wrote: It's not reincarnation. As you already explained, it makes no sense to identify oneself with the atoms that compose them, for we are constantly losing and acquiring atoms. Nor does it make sense to identify with whatever mental properties your body might have as worm food. You are a cognitive system that, with its capacity for perception and memory, is constantly incorporating new information.
I'm inclined to doubt my claim, for I don't see any science writers talking about this interesting possibility. But I need to see some better arguments for that claim that all mental properties arise after nervous system development.
Um if you are having doubts about your own claim, then maybe it is a claim not worthy of defending in the first place. Before you go making claims it would be best to conduct experiments based on prior science and build upon that. Then, if you have anything you will quite easily be able to hand it over to your peers and let them kick the shit out of it.
Nothing wrong with brainstorming, but in science that brainstorming has to come with testing and falsification, not simply leave it at mental masturbation.
