(August 24, 2015 at 5:02 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Go dig one up and see what it does. Just as you don't actually have to understand -how- a telephone works in order to determine that it -does- work, you don't have to understand -how- a worms (or any) consciousness works to see that it -does- work.
Are you saying response to stimuli = consciousness? When you go to the doctor and he hits your knee with a rubber hammer, it responds. Does that mean your knee is conscious?
Would a scientific mind be satisfied with knowing that something works and have no curiosity about how it works?
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
