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Originally Posted by Rockchick26  Doesn't this test prove that consciousness IS in the brain? |
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Originally Posted by Rockchick26 It said they failed the test during the sleep stage, when we "surrender" our consciousness. I want to believe in a seperate consciousness just as much as the next person but this puts a damper on that...it sounds pretty positive that our brain is what gives us the consciousness. That would explain the babies not recognizing themselves until their brain matured to the right age. If consciousness is always there, why don't babies have that sense right from the start? |
The mind is like an information field, or even a program we might say, and the body is like a computer. If your computer doesn't have the hardware to support a given program, you cannot load or express that program on the computer.
However, this doesn't mean the program didn't exist UNTIL it was on the computer. Perhaps it was floating around on the net for example, or maybe it was being beamed through space as a satellite signal, just waiting to be received.
As the body computer grows, it becomes more and more able to accommodate the expression of more and more of the "soul software". Just like computers with crappy graphics cards can't play highly advanced games, the body computer that is not developed cannot support all the cognitive functions available to the "program" that is our soul.
More complex souls require more complex bodies. For example, many animals do not have "self awareness", as that is not a level of complexity that their souls are patternized for, they DO have "awareness" though, its just not of their "selves". It's of their environments, and whatever else they are experiencing. They just aren't ego driven like human beings are.
Consciousness isn't this thing that is only in some things and not in others, it permeates the immensity of ALL space and ALL matter. Even dirt is conscious. Not conscious in the way you and I or even animals are conscious, but it *IS* conscious nonetheless.