RE: If someone says to me "consciousness, therefore god", what's the best way to respond?
February 14, 2016 at 12:23 pm
IMHO, as we are nothing more than bio-mechanical robots, consciousness is nothing more than awareness under the pretext of 'free will'. Bio-chemical reactions that have evolved from "clumps of sub-atomic particles/atoms/cells". If 'free will' were real, that might suggest a possibility of a god, but as a chemical reaction precedes a thought, which proceeds an action, I see no possibility of such a being.
So, my answer to the OP is that "free will must be proven first" and as we are truly "brains-in-a-vat', that would be difficult at best.
So, my answer to the OP is that "free will must be proven first" and as we are truly "brains-in-a-vat', that would be difficult at best.
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-- Homer Simpson
God has no place within these walls, just as facts have no place within organized religion.
-- Superintendent Chalmers
Science is like a blabbermouth who ruins a movie by telling you how it ends. There are some things we don't want to know. Important things.
-- Ned Flanders
Once something's been approved by the government, it's no longer immoral.
-- The Rev Lovejoy
