RE: what would make you change your beliefs?
July 12, 2010 at 6:20 am
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2010 at 6:37 am by Knight.)
Also, consciousness (states of it) can be correctly predicted through brain scans. Now, certain thoughts and behaviors can also be predicted:
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I have no idea. Even if, going against the evidence, we were to assume that consciousness was not physical, the fact that we have no recollection suggests that the consciousness temporarily disappeared...which implies that we, for as long as the knock out occurred, died. Alas, there has never been a case of a brain-dead person coming back to life (or consciousness/self-awareness), and by brain-dead I mean no activity...actually brain dead. That puts a major strain on the nonphysical conscious idea. When we are knocked out, we are not dead. We still have brain activity, which is why we are able to later regain consciousness.
This has me wondering...if it was possible to successfully do a brain-swap, what would happen? If we could isolate the brain from the body and preserve it somehow, would it be possible to live consciously in a different body...or perhaps an artificial body which mirrors our own? I would say the entire process is probably impossible, at least now. The body may also reject the brain (or vice versa), as is often the case in organ transplants. Still, if this could be done successfully, it would be irrefutable proof that the brain is completely responsible for our consciousness.
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Consciousness in Vegetative Patients
"EvF Wrote:nevertheless why shouldn't we have conscious memory of getting knocked out if there really is "no such thing as unconsciousness" as Godhead claims?
I have no idea. Even if, going against the evidence, we were to assume that consciousness was not physical, the fact that we have no recollection suggests that the consciousness temporarily disappeared...which implies that we, for as long as the knock out occurred, died. Alas, there has never been a case of a brain-dead person coming back to life (or consciousness/self-awareness), and by brain-dead I mean no activity...actually brain dead. That puts a major strain on the nonphysical conscious idea. When we are knocked out, we are not dead. We still have brain activity, which is why we are able to later regain consciousness.
This has me wondering...if it was possible to successfully do a brain-swap, what would happen? If we could isolate the brain from the body and preserve it somehow, would it be possible to live consciously in a different body...or perhaps an artificial body which mirrors our own? I would say the entire process is probably impossible, at least now. The body may also reject the brain (or vice versa), as is often the case in organ transplants. Still, if this could be done successfully, it would be irrefutable proof that the brain is completely responsible for our consciousness.
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