“The soul dies with the body—consciousness can't exist without a brain”
Agree
- Brain damage changes personality completely
- No evidence of consciousness without neurons
- Mind is what the brain does
- Evolution explains consciousness fully
- Anesthesia proves consciousness is physical
Disagree
- Consciousness is irreducible to matter
- Near-death experiences suggest otherwise
- Subjective experience can't be purely physical
- Quantum consciousness theories exist
- Something about awareness feels eternal
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