(October 10, 2014 at 2:53 pm)ChadWooters Wrote:(October 10, 2014 at 9:45 am)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: Physiological experiments and occurrences show us otherwise. Brain damage results in changed consciousness. Drug use results in changed consciousness. The treatment of mental illness with medicine shows otherwise.Studies have also shown that the mind can change the physical structures of the brain.
Indeed. Yet more evidence of the inextricable linkage between the mind and the brain. Change one, change the other.
What there isn't is any evidence of the mind outside the brain. But there's lots of evidence that the mind ceases by the brain ceases to function.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.