Human Consciousness: stimuli, analog to digital (Humans)

by David Turell , Wednesday, September 21, 2016, 19:27 (2983 days ago) @ dhw

dhw: science is no more capable of explaining how dinosaurs, humans or duckbilled platypuses can emerge from single celled forms of life than you can test your religious beliefs by experiment.-Again, I use the results of experimentation to reach my beliefs. I can't test my beliefs.
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>to experience consciousness without a brain.[/i]
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> DAVID: As a dualist, I believe when I die my consciousness/soul goes to Heaven intact, no brain required, the consciousness a separate entity from the brain.
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> dhw: Exactly. If consciousness can be experienced without a brain, it is a complete contradiction for you to state that bacteria cannot experience consciousness because they do not have a brain.-Your statement doesn't fit mine:-"DAVID: And I view a brain as a required receiver to experience consciousness. Bacteria do not have any degree of a conscious experience or consciousness because they have no receiver. From NDE research."-Perfectly clear.