BS!...Blind people are still as conscious, but Mentally handicapped people are not even close to as conscious as you or I....They still have conscioiusness yes, but it's severely diminished, more comparable to a dog or other animal. Same with babies, they have a lower level of consciousness compared to adults because there brain has not yet developed fully. I mean, do you remember ever being consciously aware as a baby? Of course not because your level of consciousness was much lower. Consciousness and brain damage are directly related, which is why severely brain damaged people such as Terri Schiavo HAVE NO CONCIOUSNESS AT ALL. Blindness is often not the result of brain damage, which is why blind people are still fully conscious. And if it is the result of brain damage it is small and specific. Consciousness is holistic, but if you destroy 40% of the brain as you say I can guarantee that person will have a severely reduced level of consciousness. Your spewing complete falsehoods.
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and if we didn't think and wonder, we would still be in the stone age. face it, most of the scientists that are praised today were ridiculed in their day. people who thought the world was flat ridiculed the few who thought it was round. how many more people would have died if it hadn't have been for the wonderers who discovered that bleeding did not cure diseases, but instead deprived the person of the white blood cells needed to defeat the illness? I can draw a few more parallels, but dinner is about to start and I need to get to the dining hall.
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Exactly. Consciousness and thinking/wondering are the result of EVOLUTION, exactly as you say. They were developed to further the human race. Don't you see how everything makes complete sense? God has no place in any of this. We are simply animals who have evolved complex minds to further our race. Some animals evolve complex defense systems, some evolve complex wing structures etc. It's all evolution and adaption. And I say this because I know what you are leading to, your trying to assert that consciousness is the soul independant of the physical brain - complete crap.