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To: PatrickHenry
But my layman's understanding is that the activity generated by our brains is different during sleep, dreams, waking activity, etc.

That is true, but you equate consciousness to electrical activity. If electrical activity is present, where is the consciousness, for a comatose person? If the electrical activity related to consciousness is not present, which you must admit if a person under the knife is not conscious, where is the consciousness? I believe most people associate spirit with the "person". A "total" description of the "being". Program might be analogous. It is inferred from the conscious being. But not wearing a scarf on my head and peering into a crystal ball I am not an expert on spirits, not even the kind that comes in bottles.

228 posted on 02/21/2002 3:38:14 PM PST by AndrewC
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To: AndrewC
but you equate consciousness to electrical activity. If electrical activity is present, where is the consciousness, for a comatose person?

No, I don't "equate" them. I say only that there is evidence of electrical activity and this is associated with consciousness. That's all I said, and frankly, it's all I know. But this is sufficient to make consciousness different from "spirit" which provides us with no objective evidence of its existence.

231 posted on 02/21/2002 4:08:35 PM PST by PatrickHenry
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