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How Can Molecules Think?
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<blockquote data-quote="Yaaten" data-source="post: 76914339" data-attributes="member: 445591"><p>More from "Is There Life After Death?"</p><p></p><p>"First, there is amnesia. When elderly people suffer a stroke, or when trauma occurs to the brain, patients often lose the ability to remember things that happen after that tragic event. Now why does this happen? The thinker lost an important mental function–the ability to remember new things. But the soul has not been damaged. The brain was damaged. Somehow damage to the brain causes that person to lose the ability to efficiently store new memories. Why would damage to the brain affect the functioning of the soul?"</p><p></p><p>Okay, look, you clearly have gone off the rails here. You began with a faulty belief that the soul was somehow equivalent to the mind, and went from there, basing everything after this upon that misconception.</p><p>Yes, people suffer from amnesia and all sorts of other ailments of the mind (or 'brain', if you prefer, and are like Daniel Dennett who seriously thinks we don't have minds), but even someone with schizophrenia or senility is still basically the same person underneath. Take away the problem, and they'd return to their clear, lucid self. </p><p>Sure, brains get damaged, and then the person in question has difficulty understanding or remembering something, but <em>that does not change who they fundamentally are. </em></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yaaten, post: 76914339, member: 445591"] More from "Is There Life After Death?" "First, there is amnesia. When elderly people suffer a stroke, or when trauma occurs to the brain, patients often lose the ability to remember things that happen after that tragic event. Now why does this happen? The thinker lost an important mental function–the ability to remember new things. But the soul has not been damaged. The brain was damaged. Somehow damage to the brain causes that person to lose the ability to efficiently store new memories. Why would damage to the brain affect the functioning of the soul?" Okay, look, you clearly have gone off the rails here. You began with a faulty belief that the soul was somehow equivalent to the mind, and went from there, basing everything after this upon that misconception. Yes, people suffer from amnesia and all sorts of other ailments of the mind (or 'brain', if you prefer, and are like Daniel Dennett who seriously thinks we don't have minds), but even someone with schizophrenia or senility is still basically the same person underneath. Take away the problem, and they'd return to their clear, lucid self. Sure, brains get damaged, and then the person in question has difficulty understanding or remembering something, but [I]that does not change who they fundamentally are. [/I] [/QUOTE]
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