Reply #34: Sigh again then

[cyborg_jim]

That's impossible to know.

I think it is rather more sensible to assume English would cease to have any existence if no one knew of, or used, it. That is how languages - and gods - die. They are forgotten.

I'm using "consciousness" in the sense of awareness and perception, the part of us that connects and interacts on a non-physical level.

So am I, except the inescapable conclusion about consciousness is that it does not connect and interact, it is the product of such things already having occurred.

In what sense is there anything non-physical?

I don't believe that consciousness dies along with the brain.

Why not? You can totally alter conscious perception by manipulating the brain. What possible mechanism could there be for transplanting this ethereal thing? In what sense is it alive in the first place?

Again, an individual's consciousness is not separate from the brain, but neither is it epiphenomenal.

Care to give me a good reason to believe that?

Human consciousness is still evolving. It's kind of the frontier of human evolution. We can't pretend to understand it, but we can try.

I fail to see how one can parse 'consciousness' and 'evolving' in the same sentence. That doesn't really mean anything. What the hell does it mean to be at the 'frontier' of it? As far as I can tell we understand enough to make all those sentences gobbledegook.