(October 27, 2018 at 7:44 am)Huggy74 Wrote: 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.
Well, I consider my question as a knock out argument against consciousness being separable from bodies, provided you accept the parallel to digestion. I have no idea how/why you would answer yes but I didn't expect to find anything interesting by asking.
But all those kooky accounts of what happens under extreme physical duress are always shared by people with embodied, working minds .. the kind of minds which are capable of imagination and hallucination. So of course I don't take them as anything beyond interesting. I certainly don't assume they are a window into the Twilight Zone.