RE: Is God a logical contradiction?
February 14, 2020 at 10:51 am
(This post was last modified: February 14, 2020 at 10:54 am by John 6IX Breezy.)
(February 14, 2020 at 10:24 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: I didn't realize that you needed to be walked through the entire history of thought on animal behavior. If I step on a nail, I feel pain. I don't have to contextualize it, it hurts. If you don't think a dog feels pain, I trust you don't own one.
If you step on a nail you may or may not feel it; that information doesn't always enter conscious awareness. We've all had situations where we find ourselves bleeding and have no idea where the scratch came from; soldiers in battle are more likely to have life-threatening injuries go unnoticed.
More importantly withdrawing your foot from injury is the very definition of a reflex. That information synapses at the spine and the reflex response is initiated before any information enters the brain.
I understand that owning a dog makes you see things differently. Admittedly the animals I own are not at the same level of expressiveness as dogs. Dogs and humans are both social animals, and social animals regulate each other's nervous systems. Their response to pain is essentially bred to make you feel something. That's fine if you feel something, I'm not telling you to remove the humanity out of the interaction. I'm just asking you to understand how it all works and not come to scientific conclusions based on your emotions.