(November 12, 2018 at 2:12 pm)Everena Wrote:(November 12, 2018 at 2:02 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Do you think all animals are similarly animated by an external factor that is eternal? Or does the ethereal component only congeal to sapient critters? If so I wonder if you think some particularly intelligent bonobos make the cut while some particularly dense humans miss out?Of course, all conscious life down to the paramecium that does not even have a brain, yet is still somehow conscious.
But why in the world posit an elaborate remote control for organisms rather than allow that the governance arises with all the other organism's functioning? Why must there be one universe in which objects exist and another for 'souls'? Seems like a regular Rube Goldberg arrangement to me.