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Old 05-08-2007, 02:40 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by AidanMatthews216 View Post
If consciousness doesn't reside the brain, like mysterygal said your personality still does. Doesn't your personality govern how your consciousness interprets things, makes decisions, etc? What of that can remain if the physical structures in the brain that encode it have gone? Wouldn't it just be an empty, undefined consciousness?
The brain acts based on consciousness but it is not the storing place of consciousness or the soul. A person can mentally change themselves, but if they do not feel a change in their heart that means that their true self has not changed.
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