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"According to the current neuroscientific view, consciousness fails to survive brain death and ceases to exist."
Sources in support of that claim are extremely obscure: Since when does some philosopher like Piccinini decide the scientific consensus?
Also, how can this view be elevated to a current neuroscientific view? It is just the common-sense view! There are no new discoveries in modern neuroscience which make a a big difference. If you can reconcile your belief in consciousness after death with cases like that of Phineas Gage from the 19th century, there is nothing in modern neuroscience that could trouble you.--Anubixx (talk) 08:00, 28 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
Yes, and actually, the only sense in which that's a "scientific view" is in the fact that most scientists don't believe that consciousness continues after death. The belief in (and the concept of) eternal oblivion is by itself philosophical/metaphysical. So i agree that that sentence needs a little bit of editing. But then again, so does the rest of the article. Because the only way in which the neuroscience section in its present form is relevant to the article is if by consciousness someone means the same thing as the mind. - Ironrage (talk) 10:59, 29 March 2015 (UTC)[reply]
