Dualism (Identity)

by David Turell , Wednesday, March 11, 2015, 02:14 (3327 days ago) @ dhw


> dhw: I'd have thought that consciousness existing independently of the brain was the whole point of dualism, and NDEs, OBEs, and many other psychic experiences seem to suggest this is so.-So do I.
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> dhw:This seems contradictory. If consciousness is independent of the living brain, how can the complexity of the brain RESULT in complex consciousness?-By being a more complex receiver, receiving more complex 'wave lengths'.
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> dhw: Vaguer and vaguer. Why does there have to be a universal consciousness just because each of us has a complex consciousness of our own? Why not zillions of individual consciousnesses? What you have written actually suggests that we are not thinking our own thoughts at all, but thinking (“receiving”) God's thoughts. Exit free will.-Not at all. I make my own thoughts. My consciousness is simply using part of the universal consciousness which allows me to do that. NDE's indicate this is possible. In other words I download part of the UC to use until I pass on. No more unreasonable than all the other theories.