Can Consciousness Exist Outside The Brain?

[Derryck alias Mimbari]

http://mimbari.livejournal.com/

May 16-2010:

Can Consciousness Exist Outside The Brain?

Personally, I believe it does, for the following reasons:

Consciousness is that invisible element within humans that makes us
aware of ourselves. We can identify ourselves as individuals within a
group, mainstream society, or culture. The brain is like a computer
that files away all impressions it receives via the eyes, ears, nose,
mouth, or touch. All of these files are accessed automatically when we
want to speak, or respond to anything, or some experience
instantaneously.


This is so normal to most humans today that hardly anyone pays
attention to it, unless some mental or neurological problem arises.
Then we may seek professional help or advice. However, the
consciousness is an invisible element. Unlike the brain which is a
physical element within us. So when someone experiences 'Out Of Body
Consciousness,' it is the brain having some confusion with accessing
some of the files in memory storage, and have mis-interpreted some of
those senses.

Therefore, what the eye sees, or does not see, and the brain
interprets, or does not interpret correctly, may cause the individual
to hear, see, or experience one of the above experiences, that
hitherto resulted in someone being placed in a mental institution,
burnt at the stake, or considered demon possessed.

Hindu Re-incarnation:

This philosophy subscribes to the view that one has to take several
physical bodies in several life cycles, in order to cleanse himself/
herself from all evil, or Bad Karma. And when he/she has finally done
that, he/she will have attained Nirvana or Enlightenment, and will
never have to take another physical body again.

This concept is just like the example 'Out Of Body Consciousness Where
converts or followers, believes in this process, and will not see it
as something to be feared, but something that comes with being human,
or being in the process of eradicating Bad Karma.

Derryck.
NYC.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "As I See It" group.
To post to this group, send email to as-i-...@googlegroups.com.
To unsubscribe from this group, send email to as-i-see-it...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/as-i-see-it?hl=en.