Human Consciousness: stimuli, analog to digital (Humans)

by dhw, Sunday, September 25, 2016, 12:44 (2980 days ago) @ David Turell

DAVID: How many times do I have to repeat the brain acts as a receiver of consciousness, which I believe has the ability as a separate entity to enter afterlife.-dhw: No need for you to repeat it. If you think your consciousness, together with all the immaterial elements of your identity such as your memories, intelligence, ideas etc., can exist separately from a receiving brain, just explain why you think consciousness CANNOT exist separately from a receiving brain.-DAVID: But it does in NDE's per research. I don't follow your objections.-
You refuse to accept the possibility of autonomous (i.e. without divine guidance) cellular intelligence as the driving force of evolution because, according to you, cells cannot be conscious as they do not have a brain. You believe consciousness IS possible without a brain, as shown by NDE research, but you believe it is NOT possible without a brain, as in autonomous cellular intelligence. I see that as a contradiction. -(NB, just to avoid repetition of earlier discussions, consciousness does not mean human levels of self-awareness. It means sentience, plus the autonomous ability to absorb and process information, communicate, cooperate, take decisions etc.)