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Date Posted: 06:45
Author: Eponymous - 24 Jan 2002
Subject: Re: No Brain = No Mind
In reply to: Cowboy - 23Jan02 's message, "Re: No Brain = No Mind" on 06:44

In principle we could test a yogi to see whether they remain aware through anesthesia. See my answer to Ketch, above.

The fact that it is difficult to say how consciousness could arise from a material thing like a brain is hardly answered by insisting that there must be an immaterial thing that is not a brain that creates consciousness. (And at least in the former case we have evidence of a dependence relation.)

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