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Sentience
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RE: Sentience
No I don't agree, how would you recognise complexity without pre-existing simplicity? It is a comparitive quality. Qualities are qualities of something and sentience is a complex quality of extant beings. Qualities require means and the means to sentience necessitates a causal relationship between the means and the sentience.

As for gods properties, I don't feel an onus to prove atemporal beings cannot act dynamically? The law of causality would make that axiomatically true as all effects are preceeded (in time) by their causes. If that is to be a successful rejoinder then a rough sketch of how an atemporal being acts dynamically is needed, and I don't feel that i'm being incredulous asking for it.
"I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence"...Doug McLeod.
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Sentience - by Captain Scarlet - December 19, 2010 at 5:08 am
RE: Sentience - by Zen Badger - December 19, 2010 at 5:41 am
RE: Sentience - by theVOID - December 19, 2010 at 5:48 am
RE: Sentience - by Zen Badger - December 19, 2010 at 6:05 am
RE: Sentience - by Captain Scarlet - December 19, 2010 at 6:13 am
RE: Sentience - by theVOID - December 19, 2010 at 7:07 am
RE: Sentience - by Captain Scarlet - December 19, 2010 at 7:57 am
RE: Sentience - by theVOID - December 19, 2010 at 8:40 am
RE: Sentience - by Captain Scarlet - December 19, 2010 at 9:09 am
RE: Sentience - by theVOID - December 19, 2010 at 9:43 am
RE: Sentience - by Captain Scarlet - December 19, 2010 at 10:24 am
RE: Sentience - by Anomalocaris - December 19, 2010 at 9:46 am
RE: Sentience - by The Omnissiunt One - December 22, 2010 at 7:57 pm
RE: Sentience - by Captain Scarlet - December 23, 2010 at 2:37 am
RE: Sentience - by Edwardo Piet - December 28, 2010 at 11:23 am
RE: Sentience - by Captain Scarlet - December 28, 2010 at 2:55 pm
RE: Sentience - by Ashendant - December 28, 2010 at 9:16 pm
RE: Sentience - by Edwardo Piet - December 29, 2010 at 7:51 am

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