(2018-01-15, 07:51 PM)Obiwan Wrote: Lots of physical events affect our consciousness don’t they from concussion to brain tumours, urinary tract infections, drugs etc.
I can’t see why anaesthesia is any different from any of those factors? Do they suggest brain=mind? Well yes, I think they do and that might be ‘case closed’ if they were the only evidence - but they’re not.
The simple brain=mind argument may be simple indeed however it does not account for all the evidence, and cannot therefore be correct as far as I can see.
It occurs to me that this explains the powerful need by materialists to support brain=mind. Even admitting the possibility that it isn’t a true representation and that there may be some other model, cannot be countenanced and that means automatically rejecting NDEs, OOBEs and ADCs by any means, no matter how poorly they explain explain the reported facts.
My question is this though. I've heard more than one person say that all of this still (the effects of drugs, etc) works inside an idealist and even a dualist interpretation. Does anyone agree with that?