RE: Deism vs. Atheism
May 22, 2010 at 2:17 pm
(This post was last modified: May 25, 2010 at 3:24 pm by The_Flying_Skeptic.)
(May 22, 2010 at 6:09 am)tackattack Wrote: "This is contradicted by biology/neurology that clearly shows our mind being a product of brain activity. The latter will surely cease after death and therefore there's no life after death."
I wasn't aware that this was conclusive, please site your references.
I don't believe there is anyway to prove that there is no afterlife or soul. They are Russel's teapots floating around our universe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell's_t...ginal_text). I do believe that a relationship between our 'material' brain and our thought processes has been demonstrated. You ask for references; I raise you the split brain experiments: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMLzP1VCANo
I chose the split brain experiment because not only does it demonstrate the dependency of thought processes on the brain, but it will also have you asking "Now that significant mental processes (which are conscious themselves of outside input) are entirely independent from his 'consciousness' , which part of his consciousness goes to heaven?" At the end of the video, the scientist explains his hypothesis on which part of the brain forms the 'theory' of our environment and memories. As you learn more and more about the relationship between our brain and our experience, slowly the distinction you make between the brain and soul will fade away.
