Ardha wrote:
For starters that we can turn consciousness on and off by stimulating an area of the brain. The other is that there is no evidence so far of a mind or consciousness without a body. There's more but that's what I know.
No, we can turn electrical signals in brains on and off, mess with neurotransmitters, map function of different areas, etc., then see reaction in organisms which we can record. That is not the same thing, it’s pure speculation that this causes a total cessation of the subjective experience of consciousness, or that consciousness is reducible to physical function only, and is non-falsifiable at any rate. Materialists tend to believe they simply don’t need to account for the fact that consciousness and qualia are non-falsifiable, but they are just avoiding the issue.
Mind and Life Institute sounds like BS from their webpage.
They’ve hosted and collaborated with all kinds of respected names in neuroscience, etc. So, here you just really don’t know what you are talking about.
Split personality disorder is not a myth, not sure what you're getting at there.
DID is real, two people in one body, not so much.
As for that study it does heavily imply consciousness is tied to matter, considering impacting the brain does impact it. So much so that we are even able to create optical illusions by specifically stimulating certain areas of the brain. In short the evidence just keeps pointing to consciousness being tied to matter. You and others so far have yet to demonstrate evidence that substantiates this not being the case. Unless there is some sort of soul, or dualism is true (and neuroscience is indicating no) then you don't have much basis for that. My question though is why this seems to be an issue with spiritual types.
Look up the Hard Problem of consciousness, it’s probably something you should know about if you want to run around claiming expertise here.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5013033/
Pretty much if you see the terms quantum physics, objective reality, and consciousness together assume it's garbage for clicks (yes I have spoken to experts on this and they told me the same thing).
If they are like your Buddhism “experts” they aren’t worth listening to, but let us know what experts they are and what they said. For that matter, what is your own expertise in the area? Myself I know a bit of psychology due to education, but little on QM, I do note however that there has been a shift away from pure materialism and reductionism as regards the mind/body dichotomy in recent years, and I follow such debates as best I can as a layperson.
So, since you’re asserting yourself as an expert here evidently, what makes you one?
As to how it challenges Buddhism well there are plenty of uncaused causes at the quantum level with stuff popping into existence with no cause. But this is the quantum level. As someone told me QM is a measure of probability. The likelihood of it happening at the macro level is so small as to be essentially null.
“Someone told me”, sounds convincing.
PS: Though for your sake I would be hoping their interpretation and conclusion is not true as it would not only heavily imply solipsism but it would essentially nullify Buddhism too by extension.
I don’t think you understand Buddhism well enough to even know what would “nullify” it.