RE: My argument for atheism +
March 31, 2020 at 7:26 pm
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2020 at 7:30 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 29, 2020 at 2:26 pm)snowtracks Wrote:(March 16, 2020 at 8:35 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's not clear what you mean by greater, or that mind and brain are not one and the same, or why being "greater" would make one thing the cause of another.The Principle of Causality states that the cause always preceded the effect, the cause has the sufficiency to explain the effect, the cause is always greater than the effect since it initiates the transaction.
You then go on to ask the question of what the first thought that originated from a brain was...but if thoughts originate from brains.....
Conscious stones?
That's not what the principle of causality states.
Quote:The Principle of Causality. The concept of causality, determinism. ... Causality is a genetic connection of phenomena through which one thing (the cause) under certain conditions gives rise to, causes something else (the effect). The essence of causality is the generation and determination of one phenomenon by another.
Notice the lack of any insistence on "greater" causes - a term you've employed without definition twice. We'll call it the snowtracks principle, instead. -Which is fine.
If the snowtracks principle is true - then brain is "greater" than mind, causes mind, and is a sufficient explanation of mind.
You need to insist that mind is "greater" than brain...but if mind comes from brain...which it demonstrably does...and which you've assumed as well by wondering about the first thought originating from a brain...then the cause does not have to be "greater" than the effect. This is the fun sort of nonsense you get yourself into when you try to rationalize your ridiculous superstitions.
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