RE: Atheism the unscientific belief (part one, two, and three)
March 11, 2016 at 10:14 am
(This post was last modified: March 11, 2016 at 10:15 am by IATIA.)
(March 11, 2016 at 9:37 am)Little Rik Wrote: You know absolutely nothing about philosophy about the difference between brain, mind and consciousness,
Science has lots of answers and more information is coming all the time. The only issue that science has not yet been able to address is the 'qualia' of existence, of which you cannot know anything anymore than anyone else. All living things are aware. This is simply a function of life that is necessary for continuance. A virus needs to be aware of the DNA factory of a cell to reproduce and that awareness is nothing more than chemical reactions. There is no reason to believe that we are any different. Qualia on the other hand, is an awareness of our awareness. A virus, however, has no brain, ergo it has no qualia.
The problem with qualia is that we cannot study it within the 'system' and we are unable to step out of the system. It is impossible to completely know any system from within the system. Qualia puts us in a position that leads us to believe that we are aware of reality when in fact, we are nothing more than 'brains-in-a-vat' and cannot know for sure that anything we perceive is as we perceive it.
What qualia is, how the brain generates qualia, why the brain does so, if the brain does so are all good questions for which we have no answer at this time. Whether or not we can ever know is an even bigger question.
So, unless you can source some information that no one else in the world has, how can you even begin to suggest that you know anything of this system? Anecdotes and 'scripture thumping' are not proof, evidence or even 'keyholes' to reality and the nature of qualia.
So bring it on.
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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
