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To: Patriot Politics
“Your belief that consciousness is not predicated on biologic life”

No that's my point. It is predicated on biological life. Not any religion. The brain works using bioeletrical energy. Synapse firing and so forth. The question is to be what happens to that energy when the solid brain stops functioning.

If you call that energy a soul or a ghost depends on faith so to speak.

40 posted on 07/29/2013 4:19:26 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: BigCinBigD

From a purely naturalistic point of view, the idea that consciousness can exist without the chemical and electrical energy in the brain is absurd. From the same point of view, when one dies the chemical and electrical gradients in the brain reach equilibrium, a state in which there is no more usable energy to be directed toward certain tasks (eg. to transmit signals between neurons which ultimately leads to perception of the world and consciousness.) Since there is no way for these neurons to continue to transmit messages, one is no longer conscious and the person slips into a state of non-being.

From a naturalistic point of view, it is absurd to assert there exists consciousness past life. However, if you continue to insist on this, please provide an example of how this is physically possible, given all brain activity eventually stops in the brain.


54 posted on 07/29/2013 9:28:34 AM PDT by Patriot Politics
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