If there was a "soul" independent of the brain and the brain was just the link between the body and the "soul", all diseases/damages of the brain wouldn't affect our ability to still be aware and to think.
How clever of you to require as proof of the soul that ALL brain deficiencies must be healed by the spirit. That allows you to ignore as evidence for the soul
the math genius who had almost no brain!After such damage, such a brain would not have any ability to still be aware and think, yet it still functions just fine!
Later, a colleague at Sheffield University became aware of a young man with a larger than normal head. He was referred to Lorber even though it had not caused him any difficulty. Although the boy had an IQ of 126 and had a first class honours degree in mathematics, he had "virtually no brain". A noninvasive measurement of radio density known as CAT scan showed the boy's skull was lined with a thin layer of brain cells to a millimeter in thickness. The rest of his skull was filled with cerebrospinal fluid. The young man continues a normal life with the exception of his knowledge that he has no brain.
http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/science/is_the_brain_really_necessary.htmOP has made this claim about brain deficiency in order to support the claim that there is no evidence for life after death (#5), but I see that the OP has removed the part of his post where he made the claim that "
everything seems to force [you] to conclude that you were nothing for an eternity and are going to be nothing again for another". Actually, I do not see
any evidence or reasons favoring a belief in human life being "nothing for an eternity" both before and after human life because
obviously nothing can come from nothing. On the other hand, there is actually a lot of
scientific evidence supporting near-death experiences and the afterlife.
Here is my reply to that claim made by OP from earlier:
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1424793.msg14425062#msg14425062