(March 20, 2015 at 12:55 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The difference between my position and that of a physical reductionist is that I do not think the motions of sensible bodies provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for sentience.
No Chad, there is no such thing as a "soul". If "souls" were part of evolution all life would have "souls" and you know damned well that you don't assign that to all life. This is a claim by all religions. It is an attempt to give humans self importance.
99% of species in our evolution have gone extinct. There have been 5 mass extinctions in our evolutionary history for ALL LIFE. Are you claiming T Rex had a soul too?
Quote:I do not think the motions of sensible bodies provide the necessary and sufficient conditions for sentience.
Doesn't matter what you think, it matters what evolutionary biology of all life says. Now unless you are willing to give virus and bacteria and cockroaches "souls" too, you are doing nothing but special pleading.
You are projecting human qualities on non existent things, the word for that is "anthropomorphism". Cave dwellers thought deer were gods. Other humans thought volcanos were gods.
The idea of a "soul" is merely a projection of your evolutionary desire to continue.
