RE: Atheist VS Naturalist - the latter sounds more appealing to me...
May 26, 2020 at 4:15 pm
(This post was last modified: May 26, 2020 at 4:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
There are all sorts of entities™ giving us ideas. It's a testable claim, as are the underlying claims to the existence of those entities. All we need to do is follow the chain of interactions back to the boogeyman.
Being personally unaware of where in your brain a thought arises is no different from being personally unaware of the mechanisms involved in your heart beating. Ironically, the fact that we're unaware of the mechanism behind our thoughts is predicted by a scientific theory of consciousness. There are no more nails to lay in the coffin of the idea that our thoughts arise from somewhere other than our brains.
This world could be choked all the way up to the stratosphere with supernatural boogeymen galore...and it would still be demonstrably true that human thought originates in human brains.
Being personally unaware of where in your brain a thought arises is no different from being personally unaware of the mechanisms involved in your heart beating. Ironically, the fact that we're unaware of the mechanism behind our thoughts is predicted by a scientific theory of consciousness. There are no more nails to lay in the coffin of the idea that our thoughts arise from somewhere other than our brains.
This world could be choked all the way up to the stratosphere with supernatural boogeymen galore...and it would still be demonstrably true that human thought originates in human brains.
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