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- From: muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah)
- Subject: Re: Proving Life after Death? (was Re: Ayn Rand on Religion [Was: Reply to Wingate])
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.042304.5677@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 04:23:04 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov22.133927@aifh.ed.ac.uk> edwardc@aifh.ed.ac.uk (Edward Carter) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov21.192703.16527@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,
- >muttiah@thistle.ecn.purdue.edu (Ranjan S Muttiah) writes:
- ># <<<<lots of stuff deleted -- thanks! Quite embarassing really :-)>>>>
- >#
- ># ***************** Entering reality, ********************
- >#
-
- >"Consciousness as a complete unit" seems to imply that it's a physical
- >object. This, in turn is something that you deny when you claim that
- >it's "the collective workings of the neurons...". It can't be both
- >a complete [ie enduring, physical] unit and the output of a working
- >machine [ie dependent upon the machine keeping working for it to
- >exist].
-
- It is a carry over from that observation that things get transformed into
- something. Just think of your personality. Surely, you think of your
- self as being one person don't you ? It may be dependent upon the machine,
- but still it is you as one complete person.
-
- >This `it's got to go somewhere' argument can only be reconciled with the
- >idea of consciousness as the result of the brain's workings if the
- >physical brain somehow makes the transition to the astral plane, surely?
-
- It does, believe me, I've personally seen it happen. King kong and
- many others are floating around in this astral plane :-). My point is
- that, fine the brain decays into fertilizer. But now what happened to
- that personality ( which I'm equating with consciousness for stupidity's
- sake) ?. Something must have happened to it.
-