Life After Death – Brain Damage
Sam Harris (born 1967) is an American author, philosopher, public intellectual, and neuroscientist, as well as the co-founder and CEO of Project Reason. He is the author of The End of Faith, which was published in 2004 and appeared on The New York Times best seller list for 33 weeks. The book also won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction in 2005. In 2006, Harris published the book Letter to a Christian Nation, a response to criticism of The End of Faith. This work was followed by The Moral Landscape published in 2010, his long-form essay Lying in 2011 and the short book Free Will in 2012.
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8 Responses to “Life After Death – Brain Damage”
this is fucking *on* *point*
what this Sam guy doesn’t understand is that the spirit/soul is merely inside this human vessel.. the vessel itself has it’s own way of functioning.. for example when he spoke of the brain etc but when this body and brain cease to work, the soul leaves and then operates on another playing field.. different to being in a body that inevitably dies.
Birth and death are merely problems of time.
What i like about sam harris is he sticks to the facts. he doesnt say there is no god and heaven, he simply says we dont have the evidence for that at this time. Contrary to dawkins who says, there is no god and there is no afterlife.
Brilliant!!
lazy neurologist kills more neurons defending zion the pussy lion::)))
Any body that looks into the NDE phenomenon will quickly see that Sam Harris is misinformed. Maybe he is informed but doesn’t want to talk about it for ‘political’ reasons.
There is correlation between the mind and the brain, but that does not imply equivalence. Having a part of the brain damaged, does not mean that consciousness isn’t there, however distorted perceptions may be. And if you hold this view, it’s like saying gravity does not operate on the moon, because it does not have the same value as it does on earth.
It is plausible to say that value(of consciousness) depends on conditions(of the brain), not for existence but for expression.