(July 2, 2014 at 10:47 am)Purplundy Wrote:(July 2, 2014 at 8:28 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: There is absolutely no independently verified scientific evidence of consciousness existing without a physical brain. Once your brain dies, you die.I never said you'd be conscious. I said that your metaphysical person would continue to exist.
But IF there was a supernatural post-mortem consciousness, how would one be able to prove it in the first place? If I became a ghost, why would I hang around in the body I just died in?p
This all seems nice but there is still no evidence for me to believe in an afterlife. The more I think about it, the more convinced I am I will cease to exist. I may be wrong, but I'm most likely not (that is why I'm an agnostic b sides being an atheist). If you can prove to me that there is an afterlife, I will believe you, I need inductive or deductive evidence. The only reason why so many people, even deists or agnostic non religious deists, continue to have faith in an existence of your personality/person after death is wishful thinking with no rationality or logic/critical thinking behind it. Sure an afterlife would be beautiful or nice, but being nice or beautiful doesn't make it true. Many people can't simply consider they will simply stop existing after they die, and so they unquestionably hold on to comfortable thoughts of fairy-tales, afterlives, heaven's and hell's, reward and punishment, ideas all made up by human beings either to control people or to guide us morally trough our lives.
Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you