(May 26, 2011 at 2:23 pm)Eudaimonia Wrote:Ok fine I completely admit to some basic assumptions about the average atheist I come across on this site, because frankly it save tons of time.
Perhaps you could answer this: Where/What in your understanding is the seat of consciousness? What are the attributes that constitute consciousness?
To answer your question, I define Materialsim in the strict sense as the theory that physical matter is the only reality and that everything, including thought, feeling, mind, and will, can be explained in terms of observable matter and physical phenomena.
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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