RE: Human Intelligence is an Illusion
December 15, 2018 at 8:55 am
(This post was last modified: December 15, 2018 at 8:56 am by Fake Messiah.)
(December 15, 2018 at 7:20 am)The__Chameleon Wrote: > I assert that what said people like to think of as free will isn't free because they are not conscious of their own decisions, therefore their conscious sense of mind has no authority, and furthermore, since they qualified the nature of their decision making as "intelligent" (free thinking) it means that since this thinking is done by "nature" prior to the false sense of conscious authorship, nature is intelligent.
So people eat and then turn that food into thinking/ intelligence does that mean that food is intelligent? Especially since eating some food makes some people cranky or less intelligent or more intelligent.
Indeed, people used to think that there are some entities in vine and alcohol that get freed in people's bodies.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
