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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (13825)	10/29/2002 1:58:40 PM
From: Bill Fischofer	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

There are two separate issues here. The first is the question of identity, the second is whether identity is contingent on the physical substrate of the body. That these really are two separate questions has been well explored both in philosophy and in literature. Obviously if identity is physically contingent then all else is moot and discussion can rest here. But even for those not moved by theological argument/speculation, quantum physics refuses to allow easy answers to this question. Because the deeper one looks into the quantum the more apparent it becomes that rather than consciousness being contingent on the physical it is the physical itself which appears to be contingent on consciousness. I continue to recommend Evan Harris Walker's The Physics of Consciousness as the best layman's introduction to this subject yet published.