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What the God debate is really about
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RE: What the God debate is really about
March 9, 2014 at 6:19 pm
If reality is entirely self-organizing, then you should agree that our own consciousness is not separate but that it is already embedded within the total, unified self-organizing system and therefore it is not confined to our brains only (nor any particular region of space, for that matter). Consciousness would not be something "emergent" in the universe, but rather inherent.

And if that is not so, then there has to be an external agent. But either way, you can't eliminate consciousness as being the initial/fundamental state of reality.

I posted plenty more thoughts on this topic in my Order vs. Randomness thread.
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What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 9, 2014 at 1:08 pm
What the God debate is really about - by Rampant.A.I. - March 9, 2014 at 1:48 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 9, 2014 at 2:49 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by *Deidre* - March 9, 2014 at 3:01 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 9, 2014 at 3:29 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by *Deidre* - March 10, 2014 at 12:40 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 10, 2014 at 1:23 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by fr0d0 - March 9, 2014 at 5:02 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Rayaan - March 9, 2014 at 6:19 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 9, 2014 at 6:23 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Rayaan - March 9, 2014 at 10:04 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 10, 2014 at 12:27 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by *Deidre* - March 10, 2014 at 8:19 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 10, 2014 at 9:05 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by *Deidre* - March 10, 2014 at 10:11 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Whateverist - March 10, 2014 at 10:28 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by *Deidre* - March 10, 2014 at 11:30 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Whateverist - March 10, 2014 at 4:10 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 10, 2014 at 4:15 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by *Deidre* - March 10, 2014 at 1:29 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by *Deidre* - March 10, 2014 at 4:41 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Whateverist - March 10, 2014 at 5:56 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Foxaèr - March 10, 2014 at 1:43 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Rayaan - March 10, 2014 at 4:16 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by *Deidre* - March 10, 2014 at 6:05 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Whateverist - March 10, 2014 at 6:12 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 10, 2014 at 9:55 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Whateverist - March 10, 2014 at 11:36 pm
What the God debate is really about - by Rampant.A.I. - March 10, 2014 at 10:40 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by *Deidre* - March 11, 2014 at 12:10 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Whateverist - March 11, 2014 at 10:30 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Rayaan - March 11, 2014 at 10:41 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Angrboda - March 11, 2014 at 8:33 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 11, 2014 at 6:18 pm
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Mudhammam - March 12, 2014 at 2:00 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Rayaan - March 12, 2014 at 5:01 am
RE: What the God debate is really about - by Angrboda - March 14, 2014 at 8:30 pm

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