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If these beings live in this universe, or for that matter any universe, then they'll have experiences similar to ours, i.e., some kind of sensory expe...

One of the mistakes some people make in defining consciousness is that they want to define it by looking inward, i.e., our subjective experience. Howe...

I hate to use the "S" word, but in this case I'll make an exception, this is just stupid, just as much of Dennett's consciousness arguments are.

I would deny that it's irrational to reject this principle, which is to say that it's not logically impossible to have an infinite number of overlappi...

Ya, that's about right. lol

More and more is the study of NDEs leading me to the conclusion that consciousness is fundamental. Some of the early theories of consciousness that ar...

You're giving me an opinion. Moreover, I don't think that most people who study consciousness believe (even if they are materialists) that the brain i...

Ya, obviously it's not sound waves (I went brain dead.), we'd be waiting much longer for these signals to reach us if it wasn't electromagnetic radiat...

Well, some believe that consciousness is a biological function of the brain, so in this case consciousness is in the body, so to speak. I've never hea...

Well, my argument is that when the body dies, consciousness goes on, so obviously the body doesn't survive consciousness. Your wording is a bit confus...

Then I have no idea what you're talking about.

You're right, the body doesn't survive consciousness. I think you have your words switched around. Don't you mean to say, consciousness doesn't surviv...

Wow, you people are having so much fun, and you've made a lot of headway.

Excellent post on the verifiable and falsifiable.

You're welcome Banno.

Given what you've written, I'm going to assume that you haven't really studied the Tractatus. To understand what Wittgenstein is saying in this quote,...

I definitely would rely on something like this to support the conclusion that consciousness is not a brain function, there are better arguments.

I came across something that at least suggests that consciousness is probably more than just a brain function. A man in France who lives a relatively ...

I agree, although I'm not religious myself, but I do believe that we survive death based on other reasons.

I think this is generally correct, the way the word is usually used is to refer to religious ideas that are not in the mainstream of a society or cult...

I was looking over this thread from a few years ago, now I drive a 2018 Toyota Camry, go figure. :smile:

There's always going to be instances where it's difficult to see the harm. That said, we know the effects of certain actions, because we have seen the...

If you're asking if there is something objective about an immoral act, I would say there is, viz., the harm done. So, for example, if I cut someone's ...

This is one of the best NDEs I've heard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCOpzLBYeto

Well, I go where the testimonial evidence leads even if I don't understand how or why certain experiences happen. There is much about these experience...

I'm just responding to some of what's in this quote, and expanding on it a bit. What you're describing here is an opinion or an intuition, which by de...

As some of you know, my study of NDEs is centered around what we can know, so it's an epistemological study of the testimonial evidence. Also, my conc...

For those of you interested in the study of NDEs, and related subjects, I've been invited to do a podcast next year. After the podcast is complete it ...

Growing Evidence of Life After Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0AvstZQl1o

Nothing fancy, just recording on my camera and editing with the software that comes with Windows 10.

There's obviously a lot more that can be said, but I'm calling it a day. I'm actually working on Youtube videos on this very subject, viz., NDEs. Whet...

There are some people here who have an open mind, and there are some people here who really do care about truth, even if they disagree. So, I wouldn't...

I see, so the corroborated testimonial evidence while my heart is stopped and I'm no longer breathing, i.e., the testimony that I'm observing my opera...

I'm not saying that mind or consciousness is necessarily biological, I'm saying that continuity must be preserved, biological or otherwise. It's the "...

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Well, that depends, because if someone claims that something is not factually possible, as you seem to be claiming, then are you saying that it's logi...

So, your conclusion is that because it's an embodied person who does the reporting, it follows that disembodied existence is not true or couldn't happ...

Well, again, in this case, as in many other cases, what you believe makes conceptual sense is determined by your presuppositions, or your worldview. I...

I know, and I was trying to be funny, but failed. lol

Actually I'm not kidding. :grin:

There are papers on the following site about reincarnation. https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/category/academic-papers/

Ahhh, true. :ok:

I don't think Searle's analogy holds any water, to say the least. First, it's clear that digestion is a biological process, there's no debate amongst ...

Can't right now, but will later. Take care.

Thanks for the response. I don't have much more to say.

There is very little evidence in this thread that reincarnation is a real possibility. I'm not saying there isn't any evidence, only that in this thre...

Before I respond, let me just say that because reincarnation carries a lot of religious baggage I don't like the term. However, that aside, I'll respo...

As I read it, the author isn't saying that grammar is completely independent of nature. He makes this clear in the first part of the paper. Moreover, ...

p. 80 So, if I understand this correctly, when using the concept fact (state of affairs), it's not what's in reality that determines how we use the wo...

I'm working on another thread, analyzing On Certainty.