RE: Consciousness Trilemma
May 31, 2017 at 8:26 am
(This post was last modified: May 31, 2017 at 8:33 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(May 31, 2017 at 12:32 am)AtlasS33 Wrote: I think consciousness is a product of the brain; in other words our minds are rigged to generate it.So, the brain generates the "soul", then?
In terms of experience: our minds have enough nerves and enough connection ability to write down the experience.
Quote:I would say that debating it is just an escape attempt from reality: why aren't we stone or just some dirt particles?Because you had a human mommy and daddy.
Quote:I call consciousness the soul:That verse proves nothing, and contradicts your own earlier remarks. Did god blow my consciousness/soul/mind into existence, or is the brain "rigged to generate it"?
Quote:Sura 38, Page 457, The Quran:
(71) [So mention] when your Lord said to the angels, "Indeed, I am going to create a human being from clay.
(72) So when I have proportioned him and blew into him of My soul, then fall down to him in prostration."
The verse from the Quran proves that there's something different about humanity: God himself blew his soul unto us; I think the what makes us conscious and above all: different.
The physical representation of that soul is the way our brains are rigged; that's why many think that God himself is living inside our heads; that we are God.
But we aren't. That's a mere consciousness that woke us up to this life.
Allow me to suggest that this is one subject where the proposition of souls and gods is entirely worthless. A subject in which the quran is not qualified to speak, because the authors knew absolutely nothing of the matter.
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