There has been a lot of contrasting arguments about what happens in the afterlife, or whether or not there is an afterlife. There are two general arguments about the state we enter posthumously—if there is an afterlife or if it doesn’t exist. Nietzsche argues that our minds are nothing but physical matter, so we cannot live on after we die and Luther proclaims there’s more to us in our bodies, so we live on after we die. I agree with Nietzsche’s perspective because our mind, conscious and subconscious stem from the brain, the physical matter of the mind. If we were to die, our brain ceases function and our mind has nothing to support it. Our minds are just a physical matter. If we die, our mind will die along with our body. Nietzsche and…show more content… We have a lot of resources backing up the explanations and the workings of the neurosciences, while a dualist can’t back up the claims and explain how the brain works. Neurology has allowed us to learn about the brain’s motor signals, sensory signals, and the electrochemical pulses circulating throughout the body. A neuroscientist would explain the neurotransmitters, neuron firings, and brain damage. Since the dualist cannot argue and is explanatorily impotent, we endorse materialism because the materialist perspective has more explanations and justification regarding the mind and body matter. The dualist’s explanatory impotence then leads me to discuss the neural dependency…show more content… The definition of dualism is that the mind and body are separate. But if it were separate, why does what we do to our body affect our reasoning? If we take medication for anxiety, it would make us feel more relaxed. Our neurological arousal and GABA levels would increase. If dualism were correct, taking medication wouldn’t affect our mind. We wouldn’t feel any effects from the medication. But because our mind and body are connected, whatever happens to our body also affects the mind. Another example I’d like to include are concussions. When we get hit in the head, it affects our body. If the dualism argument were correct, what happens to our body would not affect our mind because our mind is not connected to our body. Pain is just the firing of neurons that sends a message to our brain. The mind and the body work together in that if we get hit in the head, our mind receives the signal that our body hurts. If the mind and body were not connected together, then we would not receive this signal. If the dualist were correct, then we wouldn’t feel pain or feel any effects from medication. To sum it up, the neural dependence argument states that the mind and body are connected in such ways that they work together by sending each other
