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Spending your limited time on earth wisely (lemmy.world)
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[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Consciousness isn't a tangible thing. It's just a label we use for a type of brain behavior. Once there's no brain, there's no more behavior. Just like once your heart dies, there's no more heartbeat.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I dunno we still see things like Terminal Lucidity and NDEs all the time.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

One of those is pre-death and the other is near-death. I don't see how either suggests that there's some ghost-brain that functions after death.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Saying "Oh that's just near death. Never mind that we are seeing active consciousness where none should exist."

Isn't that just moving the goal post at the end of the day?

[–] breecher@sh.itjust.works 1 points 17 hours ago

No, both of those still involves some form of brain consciousness. What we don't have any evidence of is consciousness existing without a physical body.