RE: ::scr long waffley post about consciousness

[Richard Marr <Richard.Marr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> This soul seems very brain-based. You can change anything 
> outside the brain 
> without much personality change (a few glands aside), but 
> poke around in the 
> brain and it's easy to change a person's personality (very 
> very easy to 
> convert them to a vegetable, but with care you can make 
> subtle changes too...)

I'm saying that the consiousness is brain-based, but the soul isn't 
at all.

When replacing a *single* neuron with a black box that does exactly
the same job, how can your personality be affected? You'd have no
way of telling the difference.

Since there's no single part of you that contains your soul, and I've
just taken part of you and replaced it with something else, and you
can't tell the difference, it seems only logical that there's as much 
of your soul in that black box than there was in the neuron that I
took out of your head.

The only way that could be true is if everything shared the same
soul to begin with.

Your consciousness (your brain) is just a view on that collective
soul.

That make any sense?