Dude, I'm a neuroscientist. If you want to talk brains, we can talk brains. I'll tell you this much though, we have virtually no idea how conscious experience relates to the brain. We know ways in which it relates to sensation and action, but consciousness seems to be this pesky nuisance parameter which defies any explanation based in the physical world.

The alternative to jumping to reductionist conclusions is to withhold belief until you are supported by evidence. You know, not doing that thing you malign religious people for doing.

>> ^hpqp:

You mean, apart from everything we know about how the brain works? And that our experience of consciousness is a function of that organ?
Moreover, what is the alternative, an immortal "soul"?
>> ^bmacs27:
>> ^hpqp:
Uh, yeah, it's the same as your "conscious experience" before you existed.
>> ^bmacs27:
So, do you guys hold any opinion on what happens to your conscious experience after death?


You should listen to Admiral Ackbar more often.
What evidence do you have for that opinion?

http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Brannigan,_Begin_Again

Episode 2 Season 2.

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I haven't watched futurama in ages... do you know which episode this is from?

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@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/hpqp" title="member since July 25th, 2009" class="profilelink">hpqp How did you like this episode about the Swiss?

I haven't watched futurama in ages... do you know which episode this is from?

In reply to this comment by DerHasisttot:
@<a rel="nofollow" href="http://videosift.com/member/hpqp" title="member since July 25th, 2009" class="profilelink">hpqp How did you like this episode about the Swiss?

You mean, apart from everything we know about how the brain works? And that our experience of consciousness is a function of that organ?

Moreover, what is the alternative, an immortal "soul"?

>> ^bmacs27:

>> ^hpqp:
Uh, yeah, it's the same as your "conscious experience" before you existed.
>> ^bmacs27:
So, do you guys hold any opinion on what happens to your conscious experience after death?


You should listen to Admiral Ackbar more often.
What evidence do you have for that opinion?

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>> ^shinyblurry:

If you don't think there is an agenda please watch the documentry "Expelled".

Are you joking?

You mean the same Expelled with that idiot Ben Stein? The one that has been thoroughly debunked, and resoundingly criticised for being misleading, dishonest to it's interviewees and just generally rubbish?

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oh boy i sure won't miss futurama. so great until the movies, so bad since then.

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