Posted: Mar 06, 2010 11:12 am
pl0bs wrote:The same bits that causes unconsciousness in your thought experiment.cateye wrote:So, in which bits does the soul reside then?Unconsciousness can by definition never be observed. We dont know whether these people were still minimally conscious in some sense. Or that they just cant remember it. Or that their consciousness is so much altered that it has no semblance of human consciousness. Etc. I like the eels organ analogy. You may hit the eels organ with a hammer so that it can no longer electrocute you, but it doesnt mean electric charge was created by the organ.Keep in mind that the loss of consciousness through brain-damage is an observed fact. Therefore a physical brain is prerequisite for consciousness (or a soul if it's what you preffer to call it...). It does not seem far stretched to conclude that consciousness requires some physical process to be going on inside a brain. At this point the dualist has to fight an uphill battle: positing that consciousness has some additional non-physical aspects is not required and falls victim to occams razor...
Err, yes. Where exactly did I speak of unconsciousness?
Does it mean a rock might be conscious, since we cannot observe it being unconscious?