nothing, nothing, nothing...big bang?

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Why cant brains be restarted like a heart if its that simplistic?
This forum is immaterial, it runs in a virtual reality, however, if I didnt have a computer and there was no internet cables and storage this forum and the internet would not exist. However, having an internet cable does not mean internet, you have to be connected to that vurtual reality, just like with the mind.
Ideas and emotions are immaterial...

If oxygenated blood can be put into the brain in time it can prevent further damage.
But the brain is a delicate organ that begins to break down quickly with lack of oxygen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brain_death.

But I'm glad you mentioned brain damage, a person with a damaged brain loses capacity and sometimes their personality changes. this is evidence against the personality as seperate from the body as does the ability of chemicals/drugs to alter perception/personality.
The mechanistic explaination is the one that fits the observable facts.

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This idea is based on the assumption that an eternal universe is less complicated than God and explains things better, I dont think it does. The funny thing is, when we reduce things, things dont become simpler but even more complicated, trying to invoke Occam's razor is not practical, in my opinion...

Where did life come from? That's an easier question. Empirical evidence shows that life most likely came from a series of spontaneous chemical reactions that occurred over millions of years.

Where? Any peer reviewed journal of this empirical evidence will do...

Blimey a quick search on wkipedia has oodles of links.

Enjoy

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abiogenesis

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Anyhoo back to the main thread topic.
The BBC had a good programme on what was before the big bang.

Funny no big man in a beard!

They are the biggest questions that science can possibly ask: where did everything in our universe come from? How did it all begin? For nearly a hundred years, we thought we had the answer: a big bang some 14 billion years ago.

But now some scientists believe that was not really the beginning. Our universe may have had a life before this violent moment of creation.

Horizon takes the ultimate trip into the unknown, to explore a dizzying world of cosmic bounces, rips and multiple universes, and finds out what happened before the big bang.


http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vdkmj