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Why the brain isn`t you
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<blockquote data-quote="partinobodycular" data-source="post: 77546633" data-attributes="member: 435281"><p>You did notice that I put 'afterlife' in quotes... right. Which means that it's just an arbitrary designation for some supposed period that lies between lives. Call it heaven if you want, the name doesn't matter. What matters is the possibility that we've all been there 'before'. (Take note of those quotations marks, they're there for a reason.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Now you, like [USER=375234]@Halbhh[/USER], are making an assumption, in your case that there are actually billions of people alive today. How can you be certain that they're not just an illusion. Maybe some are, maybe some aren't, there's no way to tell, or at least not one that I've been able to discern.</p><p></p><p>The whole point that I was trying to make is that it's often not the case that something is definitely true, most of the time we simply assume that it's true for the sake of convenience. Never having been to the 'afterlife' is one of those things. </p><p></p><p>But I do like the fact that you were thinking about the possible errors in my reasoning, meanwhile I'll try to think of the possible errors in your reasoning, and so long as neither of us are overly sensitive about criticism it's a win/win. I get a different viewpoint to consider, and hopefully so do you. In this case the point is, assumptions can be sneaky things, leading us to conclude that things are definitely true, when in actuality we only believe that they're true. To paraphrase an old saying, the best laid plans of mice and men are often derailed by assumptions.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="partinobodycular, post: 77546633, member: 435281"] You did notice that I put 'afterlife' in quotes... right. Which means that it's just an arbitrary designation for some supposed period that lies between lives. Call it heaven if you want, the name doesn't matter. What matters is the possibility that we've all been there 'before'. (Take note of those quotations marks, they're there for a reason.) Now you, like [USER=375234]@Halbhh[/USER], are making an assumption, in your case that there are actually billions of people alive today. How can you be certain that they're not just an illusion. Maybe some are, maybe some aren't, there's no way to tell, or at least not one that I've been able to discern. The whole point that I was trying to make is that it's often not the case that something is definitely true, most of the time we simply assume that it's true for the sake of convenience. Never having been to the 'afterlife' is one of those things. But I do like the fact that you were thinking about the possible errors in my reasoning, meanwhile I'll try to think of the possible errors in your reasoning, and so long as neither of us are overly sensitive about criticism it's a win/win. I get a different viewpoint to consider, and hopefully so do you. In this case the point is, assumptions can be sneaky things, leading us to conclude that things are definitely true, when in actuality we only believe that they're true. To paraphrase an old saying, the best laid plans of mice and men are often derailed by assumptions. [/QUOTE]
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