RE: Where is Jesus?
August 12, 2010 at 7:22 am
(This post was last modified: August 12, 2010 at 7:25 am by tackattack.)
Of course the mind is dependant of the brain. It's the material ingest point for all of our sensory input, bodily control and memory. The mind is also affected by electical influences and magnetic fields. It's also affected by experience because a brain can be influenced by subconscious thoughts, and subliminal input. It has not been proven however, that the primary sense of self is solely an exclusive aspect of the mind. In fact there are some reported cases of brain dead individuals coming back to life. While some may have experienced personality changes, if the brain were the sole dependency of the mind, there would be no sense of self or functioning personality or memory after brain death. Bottom line I don't claim the mind is independant of the brain, everything we do affects our percieved reality, but it's not the only dependency and it's unlikely that personality and self could be stored in a brain after brain death. This makes it unlikely in my mind (pun intended
) that the brain is the sole storage medium for what we identify as self.

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