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Originally Posted by AidanMatthews216  Hmmm... I think here we just disagree. I have never personally seen any evidence of personality, knowledge, or a soul stored anywhere but the body and brain... |
Out of curiosity, what would such evidence look like? Besides actually dying to see first-hand, is there any way to see actual evidence of anything stored outside the body and brain?
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Originally Posted by AidanMatthews216 Why is it that memory, personality traits, and even facets of our consciousness can be lost due to brain damage? If those things reside outside of our brains, wouldn't they be immune to physical damage? |
This is just my (geeky) theory, of course, but I tend to think of it a lot like a computer. I think of our Consciousness (who we are) as part of the
Great Hard Drive of the Universe. What we experience on this earth is stored in RAM (our brains) and that's what we mostly use to get around and along on a day to day basis. So, when we have brain damage (for instance) our RAM may get wiped. But all our lives, it's been writing to the GHDU. So while, to our earthly counterparts, that which makes our body "go" (the brain, or RAM) has lost its juice, its all still there on the GHDU. And even while we are in a vegetative state, or dead even, the GHDU exists and loses nothing.