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[Little Rik]

You will have to excuse me Stim but when i did asked you..........Riketto Wrote:
Do you have any evidence that all the package of body-mind and consciousness goes to the dogs?....................you reply...............Yes.

So how can you say that you are not making a claim?

Quite easily, because I'm not. You asked if I had evidence for something existing solely in your head and I said yes. There's no claim there; I simply responded to your question. Interesting, and revealing, that you chose triumphal crowing about my apparently adopting the claim you ascribed to me, rather than ask what my evidence is - anyone would think that you expected me to say I had no such evidence, and I threw you off script.

That is a very smart way to put it.
I should also nominate you for the next Nobel price for smartness.
Now forget for a minute that the question come from Rik and instead come from somebody else with the intent to know your opinion about whether the consciousness goes to the dogs once the body-mind dies.
What would you say?

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A car can be left idle with the engine on but it is not moving anywhere UNTIL the driver pop in and put it into gear and drive away.
The brain works in the same way.
It can well be into an unconscious dream but UNTIL the I decide to make it move nothing really happen.
So it is the I that decide not the brain.

Errr... no. A car and the brain do not "idle" in the same manner. But since we're probably less than a decade away from cars that drive by themselves, you might want to find a different analogy soon.

Sorry mate for disappointing you.

No worries, rik! I've gotten used to it by now.

Sorry mate but the cars that drive by themselves are programmed by someone so the I is still in charge.
Matter doesn't have enough consciousness to do anything by itself.
Disappointed again?