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    Dr. Stephen Braude – your memories aren’t in your brain|318|

    Even if something is filmed, pseudo-skeptics would just claim the footage is doctored.
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    Can Neuroscience Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain?

    Steve001, I don't think you read carefully or comprehend the links you share or in fact the discussions you want to participate in. Like I said, I will leave you with your beliefs.
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    Can Neuroscience Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain?

    This kind of back and forth leads nowhere so I'll leave you with your beliefs.
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    Can Neuroscience Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain?

    Mental states are found in the brain. The issue you raise is whether or not they are reducible to neural states. That is precisely why researchers talk about "neural correlates of consciousness".
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    Can Neuroscience Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain?

    I know you believe they're wrong. But at this point there is no proof that mental states just are brain states so I doubt your bare assertion has any suasive effect to people who think otherwise.
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    Can Neuroscience Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain?

    I don't think anyone here would argue that brain states are not reducible to brain processes. You may be confusing brain states (neural states) with mental states (thoughts, feellings), in which case there are many people here who would argue that mental states don't reduce to brain states. Even...
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    Can Neuroscience Understand Donkey Kong, Let Alone a Brain?

    Basically, they conclude that brain states in chemically induced unconsciousness are different from that of wakeful states. And the "No s***, Sherlock" award goes to.... That study reminded me of this...
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    Mod+ Is the Bible a political con job? This scholar says the proof is right in front of us |289|

    G has denied it in the past but I remain unconvinced! :-)
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    Mod+ Is the Bible a political con job? This scholar says the proof is right in front of us |289|

    Chotki, Thanks for your efforts. I would reason it out similarly to you but I don't have the bother. Glad you took the time to respond so that casual readers don't get sucked into thinking gilius, oops I mean Atwill, actually has a meritorious case that can survive more than a gentle poke.
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    Are you a skeptic or a proponent?

    I'm cognisant of corporate power and influence over western governments, especially the US. I'm well aware of the insidious nature of intelligence agencies and the cover-up and control mentality of government and military. Of the manipulation of events and causes to further political agendas. I...
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    What Most People Fail to Understand about the Concept of Free Will

    I'd say you're the one person in the thread who has shown some kind of useful insight into the question where others are stuck on flawed binary reductions of the problem.
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    I am not this body

    Seriously...WTF? No legal agreement is necessary for a logical thought process. And cultural agreement, well, I suppose if you stretch the meaning of 'cultural' far enough you could claim such a thing but basic logic is pan-cultural signifying no need of a cultural agreement as a necessary...
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    I am not this body

    Which seems to all to reduce to not understanding how to follow through the identity thread and thus deferring to some ad hoc third party legal decision. Bringing in 'legal' avenues as an out is a head scratching move. Thought experiments are designed to show strengths or weaknesses of a...
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    I am not this body

    Since the brain was kept in a healthy, living, maintained stated I would insist that Fred A, the original (and only) Fred, is still associated with that brain and reappears as a fully functioning human once his body is reconstructed. Fred B, the fully synthetic person, is a second identity who...
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    I am not this body

    There is one original identity named Fred. That should not be conflated with two entities named Fred. They do not share an identity because all their properties are not co-extensive. If their properties were co-extensive, they would be identical and therefore one and the same entity. So which...
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    I am not this body

    Let's consider Fred. Fred lives about 500 years in the future when prosthetics are incredibly advanced. Fred has a leg amputated and replaced with a prosthesis. His human leg is placed into a tissue preservation device. Is Fred still Fred? Fred has a second leg amputated. His second leg is...
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    I am not this body

    I never said it was legitimate to declare any old thing possible because it is conceivable. I said that we are poor judges of what is possible and that therefore conceivability is SUFFICIENT for the sake of discussion. Sheesh.
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    I am not this body

    Well, we don't have a perfect and exhaustive understanding of what is metaphysically possible. Things that were once thought to be completely impossible turned out to be merely contextually impossible ie. lack of knowledge causing flawed judgments. eg. planes, space travel, faster than light...
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    I am not this body

    It's quite simple. If there is something that is true of me, that is not true of my body then I am not identical with my body. I can conceive of my consciousness (the fundamental "I") subsisting in some other state eg. I could inhabit a different body or I could be uploaded to a sophisticated...
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    Have you "broken on through to the other side?"

    A relative of mine fell deep into the AJ Miller stuff, going so far as to move to the area where he set up camp. She's still 'in it' so to speak but has pulled back a bit. When she first told us about it, I watched a couple of his videos and was instantly struck by a number of 'teaching'...
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