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Stay on topic please...My response was directed to BP's use of the same initials posted above.
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Fair enough. My whole response was based on the idea that you brought up Tyson in the first place. In a careful search of the whole thread I still managed to miss that it had been posted before. My bad.
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Read page one started by Mapuc. It has to do with death, thoughts, fears etc.
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On that I still disagree. To me it seems that you were talking not about death but about proving a point about evidence.
[/quote]Whats your point?[/quote]
My point was that you brought up Tyson and his philosophy out of the blue, with no regard to what went before. But, as said, I missed the post you were responding to, so my point was misplaced. Again, I apologize.
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What is real what is not? Eye witness evidence is when someone says they witnessed or in this case experienced something. Can it be supported or corroborated ? I'm afraid only by others with similar experiences which leaves the rest of the world wondering. But it doesn't make what the person experienced any less real.
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True, but observations and experiments involving psychosis indicate that not all perceived experiences
are real.
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It does directly challenge the other never proven concept that consciousness and memories are localized in the brain.
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You say "never proven", but thus far nothing has been shown that awareness and thought exist without a brain.
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If consciousness is not within the brain not built of flesh and blood then it is not confined by the vitality of the brain.
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And yet it has been shown unequivocally that damage to the brain has a direct effect on functions involving thought.
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I'm of the opinion the mind/consciousness/soul or what whatever you want to call it doesn't die with the brain. And you know what? It's OK if you dont agree with that nor do I expect you too.
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As I said, damage to the brain has been shown to have a direct effect on consciousness. I find it unreasonable to expect that the ultimate damage - the brain shutting down, then decaying to dust - would result in anything other than complete loss of mental processes. When a severely brain-damaged person dies, is functionality somehow mystically restored to live forever in perfect awareness?
Do near-death experiences indicate that there really is something beyond this life? Or are they simply the result of oxygen starvation that is suddenly reversed? I don't claim to know anything about it, but barring any testable evidence I don't believe anything, one way or the other.