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Originally Posted by AAMM77  Are you a body or a mind? |
Thats a good question and I wish more people would do some resarch into it instead of taking the easy feel-good answer of the mind being seperate from the body. In fact if more people got interested in it, I'm pretty sure we could settle this problem within my lifetime.
When I say "settle" I don't mean definatively because I'm sure someone will always find a way to concoct some loophole, but I'm saying there would be little doubt remaining. The current evidence points to the mind and body relying on each other to exist. If one dies the other dies. However, there are some scientists that disagree and have theories to show otherwise. Time will tell if their theory holds and if the evidence stacks in their favor. They could definately use some more great minds helping their cause though.
I've tried a few psychadelic drugs, with wonderful results, and I've even had an astral experience. However, I'm very reluctant to attribute these experiences to the mystical or as evidence to support a mind seperate from the body. Why? Because I recognize people tend to do this when they reach the edge of their current knowledge and majority of the time, they are wrong.
Science has continually taught the human race humility. Meaning we are not as special as many religions would like us to believe. Do we live on after death? Here is where we reach the edge of our current knowledge. We don't know and it's easy to fill up that chasm with sprituality and everything else. I'm certain that one day (probably not in my lifetime) we will find the bridge that crosses over this chasm and thus answering the question. My bet is that we will continue this trend of humility and we will find that mind does not survive death. Is that faith in science or common-sense/logical deduction? I'll let you decide.