What does the experience of brain damage show? The diagnosis of "brain dead"?
If consciousness exists without biological mechanisms, how does this process work? How are events and material perceived, interpreted, and considered without sense organs and a brain to perform these tasks?
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2006-12-16 03:46:21 · 7 answers · asked by NHBaritone 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Some good answers, so I'll put this one to a vote.
2006-12-17 02:30:29 · update #1
Everything can't be reduced to a mathematical equation. Yes consciousness exists and is manifested in an organic body during a lifetime. The brain is part of this organic body that is used but not necessary for the consciousness to continue into infinity.
2006-12-16 03:51:00 · answer #1 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 4⤊ 1⤋
Of Course.
The body is a biological machine. A Carbon/Oxygen
based engine that runs at 98.6 degrees F.
The brain is part of the body and is the switchboard that we use to recieve and relay impulses and and messages thro the nervous system. It's also a shock absorber for the body.If you overload it, it shuts down. We call this"unconsciousness" but
this does not refer to the body's operator or unit of awareness.
Just like a switch board operator, she is still there but cannot recieve or relay communication via her switchboard.
When it is temporarily or permenantly damaged it can no longer perform it's function just like any other switchboard.
We have much more perception and awareness, or consciousness than just the 5 senses of the body.
2006-12-16 10:27:19 · answer #2 · answered by thetaalways 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Good questions! Unfortunately, from a Buddhist philosophical process the answers would be too long for me to write here, but may I direct you to places where the answers to your questions are being asked on a regular basis?
B. Alan Wallace's website (don't have the URL on hand, but you can do a websearch on him and find it easily)
"The Quantum and the Lotus" by Matthieu Ricard and Trinh Xuan Thuan
SnowLion publications has many books on Buddhist philosophy and how the "mind" works.
You also might find some answers on Buddhanet.net
Hope this helps. Sorry that I can't answer it all in here due to the huge amount of info it takes to discuss such things.
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2006-12-16 03:54:40 · answer #3 · answered by vinslave 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Shalom Baritone,
When you sleep your body is in a negative state and you are not perceiving through the material conscious mind, so to answer your question a conscious without the body is similar to the world of dreams. Your organic conscious only exists because your are bound to the world of sensual things i.e the five senses.
Peace
Aza
2006-12-16 03:52:21 · answer #4 · answered by Aza 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
that is actual a kind of confusing questions. For me (for now) the answer is that the contents of information are crammed to a huge quantity with the help of the enter from experience organs and stuff like that, yet knowledge itself is previous that. basically because a radio is critical for music, does not recommend the radio waves are not a truth. knowledge is like the radio waves. The body is like the radio.
2016-11-30 20:36:57 · answer #5 · answered by plyler 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Our consciousness is a result of our biology alone. There is no evidence to support the notion that our 'self' or 'soul' continues after all life processes stop.
2006-12-16 04:01:30 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I believe that my consciousness is my soul. Teri Schaivo still had her soul. It was trapped in a brain dead body.
2006-12-16 03:51:32 · answer #7 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋