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Comment author: Lumifer 28 January 2016 04:20:43PM -1 points [-]

by definition a ghost's brain is no longer functioning

There are definitions about ghost brains..? 8-0

Comment author: gjm 28 January 2016 05:28:46PM 2 points [-]

By definition, a ghost is of someone who has (bodily) died. By definition, to be bodily dead means to have a brain that is no longer functioning.

Comment author: Lumifer 28 January 2016 05:50:10PM 2 points [-]

No love for uploads, I see :-D

Comment author: gjm 28 January 2016 08:59:16PM 0 points [-]

They've never yet been known to leave ghosts.

Slightly more seriously: yeah, I agree that human thinking could happen on other substrates besides human brains, but no instances of that have been reported so far, and we don't know of any plausible mechanism that would make it happen after the brain the thinking started off in has died, and in any case you're just yanking my chain so I'll shut up.

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