Proof of Immortality III

The previous thread was running slowly so I have split it to this new thread. As is usual, the split point is arbitrary and participants may quote from the previous thread(s) into this one should they wish.

Posted By:Agatha

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Originally Posted by Jabba (Post 11234443) Dave, - Sorry. I used the wrong word. The self appears to be an immaterial emergent property somehow connected to the material brain. William James argued that the brain doesn't produce the mind; it transmits the mind. (Just a thought, but I wonder if that could be how emergent properties work in general...) - Anyway, I shouldn't have restricted the connection to producing the mind. The brain could be transmitting something non-physical into the physical world. - And as strange as such might seem, it seems to pale in comparison to recent discoveries in physics. - And then if the self is not restricted to one, finite, life at most (as the math seems to require), the basic self must be what we would call "non-physical."

"Appears". "Somehow connected". "Just a thought". "Could be".

Emergent properties are "transmitted" from somewhere, somehow.

Just empty hand-waving.

What "recent discoveries in physics" are you referring to? And how do they pertain to the question at hand?

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