RE: IF you deconverted in midlife, can you help?
October 27, 2018 at 7:44 am
(This post was last modified: October 27, 2018 at 7:46 am by Huggy Bear.)
(October 25, 2018 at 3:07 pm)Whateverist Wrote:*emphasis mine*(October 25, 2018 at 2:08 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: Yes.
Now that I've given you a straight answer, how about giving me one?
Well proof is only for formal logic and mathematics but I guess you'd like me to justify the claim that consciousness cannot exist apart from brain/bodies. Okay, I can't deny the possibility of a clever alternative account of consciousness: perhaps we are brains in vats; perhaps we are plugged into a matrix; perhaps the universe has created souls which it continually recycles on the wheel of life; or perhaps the lord your God creates consciousness receptors on some vast assembly line and lets the souls age for eons of time before embodying them only to reclaim and sort them upon the death of the bodies he has cleverly designed to give the appearance of giving rise to consciousness. I have no conclusive justification for thinking as I do though I do feel I am being much less extravagant in my theorizing than you.
So how good is your justification for thinking consciousness does not arise as a function of brains? Pretty tough to prove a negative isn't it? Oh wait, you find youtube videos convincing, don't you?
Because we have instances of people being operated on with absolutely zero brain functionality, recounting events and conversations that took place during the operation.
So clearly this show that conciousness can exist apart from a non-functioning brain, that's as close to dead as were going to get.
That being said I noticed you didn't ask me to elaborate on my "yes" answer to your question of "can digestion exist apart from the digestive tract".
I'm impressed that you didn't take the bait, someone like Judy would have swallowed that hook line and sinker.
