Atheism feels shunned...

[Purple Rabbit]

Yes. What evidence is there to believe it's anything other than mechanical?

Is information mechanical?
Maybe the transfer of information or the storing proces of information but the information itself, its semantics, its meaning, its connotation?

I do stuff...I say stuff - I think stuff...But any of this 'stuff' that I think, say or do - what evidence is there that i control this? When; I'd have to control the 'me' that does this 'stuff' to have any control that isn't mechanical?...And how can I control this 'me', this 'self'....if it is this 'me', this 'self' that does the controlling?...If this 'self'....is me...so how can I can control it...that would just be it controlling itself, wouldn't it?: And where's the evidence that that's possible!?

For the record, I don't say you control it.

Whether there is real control from thought to the physical or not, either way you'd perceive the 'I' and either way you would be incapable of checking if there is a real connection from thought to atom, if you somehow push the electrons around in your brain with pure willpower. Still the 'I' is what you perceive, it is undeniable. To deny 'I' you would be 'not-I' and that seems a rather unhealthy kind of situation that does not leave much room for debate with yourself. The 'I' exist but not necessarily with control over matter. I take it we agree on the fact that the 'I' exists and that there is no reason to make this existence a priori dependent on having control over matter?