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Thread #131699   Message #2984734
Posted By: Amos
11-Sep-10 - 05:30 PM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
First of all, josep, you have an air of professorial certitude about your assertions and how they prove things that verges on the authoritarian,

Second of all, there are plenty of case histories where data is recovered from periods of unconsciousness as the term is usually used, through various techniques of regression or hypnosis or both. Your argument that this proves one was not "truly" unconscious is fine, except that it stretches the commonly used definition, but even if it does prove that a living organism still registers during period of apparent unconsciousness, this does not mean that that same mechanism extends prior to this lifetime or past the end of it.

Telling others they are flat out wrong is not conducive to good conversation, in case you hadn't noticed.

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