Free Will, Consciousness, Identity (Identity)

by David Turell , Sunday, August 26, 2012, 18:54 (4471 days ago) @ dhw

DAVID: A material brain produces an immaterial consciousness, a tiny part of the consciousness of the universe.
> DAVID: The brain is a radio sender and receiver... The electromagnetic waves of radio signals are not intelligible until received by a proper decoder.
> DAVID (in a previous post): Mind and brain do separate in an NDE.
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> In view of the direct communication in NDEs between brain-dead patients and the dead people they encounter, how do you think signals are sent and decoded, since no physical brain is necessary? The suggestion seems to be that at one moment the immaterial self is dependent on the material brain for its birth and all its characteristics, but the next moment doesn't need the brain at all, yet retains its characteristics and simply switches to a telepathic mode which the material brain created to be both dependent on and independent of itself. Is that a fair summary of what you believe? -The answer to all these puzzles must lie in quantum mechanics. After all we know that Einstein's 'spookiness at a distance' is proven beyond a doubt. If quanta can be in two places at the same time, a mind which is a quantum particle network can do telepathy, and be detached and attached at the same time. The authors, whom I have read, who try to come to grips with this all return to the same quantum suppositions or to holographic representations based on quantum theory. The answer may lie beyond Heisenberg's wall of quantum uncertainty. I'd like to hear other's thoughts.