Life After Death: A Case for Extinction

http://whatblag.com/2011/10/18/life-after-death/

by CMartucci • 15 years ago

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From the article:And yet, we know today that it’s just not true. Biology is that things that makes you you. Genetics. Neurochemistry. There is no “mind” and “brain” — there’s just the brain.

This is speculation, albeit compatible with that of many scientists. We have no proof that mind/brain are the same thing, we have correlations between brain activity and subjective self reports, but these do not necessarily imply causation.

It annoys me when people assign extremely high probabilities to matters about which we, as a species, have very little understanding (even if I may agree with the particular viewpoint expressed).

CMartucci• 15 years ago

Would you agree at least that, even if there is a mind, that it requires a brain in order to manifest itself, such that "mind-minus-brain" makes no sense at all?

comsolo2• 15 years ago

No because nobody has any idea what the 'soul' or 'mind' is. For all we know it may be possible to completely remove our soul from our body and exist in a different way and enter into another. Nobody knows

comsolo2• 15 years ago

A very disappointing article.

While there is little to no scientific (physical) evidence of another 'dimension' or of the existence of a soul or consciousness, there is also no evidence against it.

The claim that chemical reactions in the brain have been proved to be responsible for everything we experience is simply not true.

We are still not really sure of what causes dreams, what causes near death experiences.

We also have no scientific explanation for a surprising correlation between all of the worlds religions (even those of civilizations milennia removed from one another), or of a surprising consistency in the experiences of those who have been clinically 'dead.'

While I am not religious, this is a classic example of arrogance in the name of science.

We do not have any recorded data on what happens after death.

And if we were to rely purely on claimed observations (of which there are literally millions), then there is definitely a plethora of evidence for the existence of some plane above our own.

Indeed we cannot even develop a method to get rid of the common cold, or of cancer. Which compared to understanding precisely what causes self awareness, consciousness, that 'knowledge' that there is something 'seeing' out of our eyes, using our brains, something maybe more than we know of already... compared to understanding all that, beating cancer or the common cold should be a walk in the park.

The fact is, we can't solve either, and our knowledge of the human body is still incredibly infantile. Let's try to take some baby steps before we can claim to know what happens in the mind, or the 'soul.'

Life After Death: A Case for Extinction

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