The Mystery of Consciousness

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The Mystery of Consciousness

Post by Shirleypal » 02-02-2007 12:15 PM

According to the "'astonishing hypothesis' our thoughts, sensations, joys and aches consist entirely of physiological activity in the tissues of the brain." In other words "consciousness is the activity of the brain" and thus there is no soul, no spiritual NDEs, and no life after death. Bummer! But we know better, now don't we?

"...when the physiological activity of the brain ceases, as far as anyone can tell the person's consciousness goes out of existence. Attempts to contact the souls of the dead (a pursuit of serious scientists a century ago) turned up only cheap magic tricks, and near death experiences are not the eyewitness reports of a soul parting company from the body but symptoms of oxygen starvation in the eyes and brain."

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/artic ... 94,00.html
Interesting article by Time no less.

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Post by Riddick » 11-03-2011 05:33 PM

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Post by Dude111 » 12-09-2011 02:37 AM

I hear this all may be a dream Riddick! (Even when we think we are "AWAKE")

What do you think buddy?

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Are we Men of Science, or Devo?

Post by bobbo » 12-09-2011 06:57 AM

Sad in this day and age that scientific issues still need to be discussed in the context of overcoming religious superstitions==or any others?

the current discussion accepts the chemical/electrical/genetic/environmental model of consciousness and has moved on to machine based artificial intelligence.

I haven't seen Pinker write about that, but I assume he has. Darn--just added to my list of things to look up. When will WATSON be available to just tell us while we sleep and we can wake up each day smarter than when we went to sleep?
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