A | B |
electronic bat | has no conscious bat experience |
something you'll never know about a bat | what it is like to be a bat |
neurosurgeon knows more about my brain but | less about my mind |
problem with consciousness being an illusion | it serves no purpose and seems hard to deny while conscious |
wrong assumption about Vietnam War | U.S. thought they could change their enemies through conditioned responses |
unity of experience | sights, sounds and taste light up different areas of the brain but are experienced by one mind |
computers and consciousness | more complexity of computers does not seem to get them closer to consciousness |
Penfield's patients | brain parts were activated to move the hand but patients knew who was causing the hand to move |
consequences of materialism | no freedom, no will, no morality |
panpsychism | theory- all forms of matter has some consciousness |
two cans | one fizzes atheism and one fizzes theism |
time continuity argument | nearly every changed every 7 years but it still will be me |
damage to 47% of the brain | does not mean you have 47% of the same person |
the brain can effect consciousness (alzheimers, for example) but | consciousness can also effect the brain (like depression) |
N.D.E. | vantage points are physically impossible |
into your hands I commit | my spirit |
today you will be with me | in paradise |
to be absent from the body is to be | present with the Lord |
the beginning of the universe | transcendent cause (intelligent, nonphysical) |
mechanical parts are interchangeable between machines but | can't exchange part of a soul |