(August 16, 2010 at 9:15 am)tackattack Wrote: Before I'll even get into the difference between mind and soul... you first have to prove that the brain and the mind are exclusively codependent and neither can function without the other. Specifically, How can you prove that the mind (everything we call the self, id, ego, identity, etc.) dies when the brain dies, and what evidence do you have to support it conclusively?
We have evidence that the brain, of course, exists. As does consciousness. We also have evidence that consciousness is effected when the brain is. So, to apply Occam's Razor to that.... why should we assume that there is any "Mind" in addition to the brain if such an assumption is unnecessary? It's important to postulate fewer unnecessary entities/complexity without evidence to back it up, if we are to be rational, surely?
