We Are The Processes In Our Brains

A response to LoneStar1776's argument for a soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpehtGXPiRk

Information about brain trauma:
http://www.dmoz.org//Health/Conditions_and_Diseases/Neurological_Disorders/Tr...

Phineas Gage:
http://www.deakin.edu.au/hmnbs/psychology/gagepage/

Inducing OBEs:
http://www.shaktitechnology.com/god_helmet.htm

The split brain:
http://www.its.caltech.edu/~jbogen/text/ref130.htm

Split-brain demonstration:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMLzP1VCANo

Neurologist Ramachandran on brain damage:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0R0OCurkLM

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[dwheel39]

If consciousness is merely a product of our brains and didn't come about by any Intelligence OUTSIDE of nature, how can your reasoning be considered valid? Your brain is determined by random collision of molecules as well as mine. So why debate? Why dialogue? You act as if there IS objective TRUTH that the other person is deviating from. But this concept lies outside of materialism. A consistent atheist is silent.

[truthtofind]

@truthtofind Also, the seperateness of soul and brain can be argued for based on facts rather than perceptions or feelings. To find a pretty good example of this search for "reginald firehammer" and "consciousness itself". I don't know who Firehammer is, but he makes decent arguments. One of the strongest is the possible incompatibility of the contiguity of subjective experience and the physical and temporal disunity of the brain and its processes. (Reposting due to earlier error)

[truthtofind]

I'm not persuaded by your arguments for soul and brain being the same. The phineas gage exampe doesn't argue for this because it could be argued that personality is peripheral to soul. The same thing applies to the split corpus callosum and the god helmet examples. The corpus example references belief formation, which could be regarded as peripheral. Positing qualities of experience as the identitical to experience is similar to ascribing color to a mirror based on what is in front of it.

[superbn0va]

Abc, have you ever asked yourself how life would be if you have never been conscious (a wake)?

[RichieJohnSauls]

What a terrible place to use Dvořák. Nevertheless, good content. :-)

[Fisherdec]

You have a strong sense of reality ABC. I believe our views are congruent on this matter. I also believe that every living thing is simply one consciousness experiencing itself from a subjective point of view. Nice video and good pick on the Dvorak Cello concerto.

[beserker5]

We are the processes in our Brains. Seems illogical to me.

I walk means I walk with my feet.

I talk means I talk with my mouth.

I think means I think with my brain.

The brain and it's processes are a tool that I may use. Then what does the word "I" refer to ?

[Illyria23alyssa]

Like someone mentioned before, there are reports of people being completely brain dead, and they had near death experiences. I read one where a man had suffered a heart attack, saw his dead brother with his [what he thought] alive parrot pearched on his bro's shoulder. When he awoke, he asked his wife about his parrot. She said that the bird had died, but she didn't want to tell him seeing as how he had just suffered a heart attack. Regardless, I enjoy your videos.

[Illyria23alyssa]

I'm going to watch the rest of these videos and sub, because I agree with many of your opinions and facts. I have a really difficult time believing that there is no...other part to us (i.e. spirit, soul) though, and I see limited meaning to life and relationships with others if I'll someday never get to see them again. It saddens me deeply, therefor I am in the ongoing process of studying metaphysical and scientific support for an afterlife. Thanks for the vids.