RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
October 25, 2018 at 1:03 pm
(This post was last modified: October 25, 2018 at 1:05 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(October 25, 2018 at 11:58 am)Thoreauvian Wrote:(October 25, 2018 at 11:20 am)Huggy74 Wrote: So what you're saying it that you've discovered proof that consciousness cannot exist apart from the body?
You are a body with a brain. Your body is what is conscious. Consciousness is a process, not a being. Your body is the being.
Science supports the idea that the mind is brain-dependent with studies of brain damage through injuries and strokes, studies of the effects of drugs (including anesthesia) on consciousness, studies of sleep and dreaming when some parts of the brain turn off, and studies of how different parts of the brain are specialized for different functions.
Why do you think consciousness is some separate substance?
If your body/brain "is what is conscious" then explain this...
https://science.howstuffworks.com/life/i...-done1.htm
Quote:By all accounts, Pam Reynolds, a blues singer from Atlanta, Ga., was a normal person before she underwent surgery for a brain aneurysm. During the procedure, physicians drained all of the blood from Reynolds' brain, rendering it completely inactive for 45 minutes. All normal brain operations -- from accepting signals from the stomach that the sensation of hunger should cease or the transmission of aural and visual information -- ceased.
Yet, upon awakening, physicians found Reynolds could describe the procedure in incredible detail.
Quote:What's most impressive about Reynolds' NDE is that her brain was brought to a nonfunctioning state by an experienced medical staff. Yet, she was still capable somehow of relating information like the type of bone saw her physicians used to cut off her skull and conversation between the operating staff.
