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To: reasonisfaith

Thanks for reposting that. I read it last week and couldn’t find it again.


6 posted on 02/19/2015 2:58:03 PM PST by Inyo-Mono
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To: Inyo-Mono

The whole article is juvenile sophistry. It is obvious that consciousness is not an attribute of matter or indeed of any physical thing, and certainly not the “brain” per se.

If it were, then anesthesia would be impossible and consciousness would survive death, but not decay.

Consciousness is itself a process - and is an aggregation of thousands of processes, many of which take place in physical living cells and organs, but consciousness is not in any way physical or material. Of course there is the eternal philosophical “touching” problem that will be discussed without end (not by me), but this author is writing like a third grader when everyone around him is in graduate school.


11 posted on 02/19/2015 3:07:16 PM PST by John Valentine (Deep in the Heart of Texas)
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