(April 24, 2010 at 4:37 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Do you know she suffered? Are you judging her experience from your own?
(April 24, 2010 at 4:31 am)Ace Wrote: Personaly, I think this whole spirit thing is nothing more than wishful thinking.I think that covers considerations of the afterlife.
Frodo, I don't think anyone even implied that. The impression I got was that she was beyond human suffering, What I understood was people here are saying are saying it WOULD BE cruel if she had a spirit trapped in that body .
I'm aware of the body mind dichotomy about which people have argued for centuries. I disbelieve in a mind separate from the body or of one capable of surviving death. My position is that the mind is a process,not an object,it is the dynamic of the living brain,a product of the brain in action,just as motion is a product of the motor of a car. (clumsy analogy, but I don't claim to be a philosopher)
The reasons for my position: Skepticism: I demand proof,but so far have seen none.
Another basic question is "Which mind?". The mind changes a little moment to moment and radically year-to-year. What happens if a mind is damaged or the owner is nuts? Does it become prefect at death? Which version? Where and by what mechanism is the perfect version backed up? (to use a computer analogy) Does God have a special external hard drive for each person,or does he just miraculously make everything perfect? That brings me back to my demand for proof.
