RE: a question for atheists
August 5, 2012 at 6:00 pm
(This post was last modified: August 5, 2012 at 6:02 pm by Cyberman.)
The first part of that response demonstrates that you get it. Your consciousness is an emergent property of your being alive. One cell of your body is alive, but it has no consciousness. Nor has two, three, four of them. Only when you have a collection of enough specialised cells to form a brain and nervous system can you have consciousness. Your body doesn't need to be conscious to be alive; one popular fact is that you spend on average a third of your life unconscious, we call it being asleep. I have not the slightest idea what you would call it.
Neither do I have any idea what you mean by "construct a fooled self based on the events that happen to my body who is moved by some mysterious ways by the evolution of our universe." If you're trying in some peculiarly unique way to assert that evolution - a biological process with no direct connection to the Universe - is a foolish belief, I wish you'd come out with it and say so. That's a separate topic.
Evolution is a fact, by the way.
Neither do I have any idea what you mean by "construct a fooled self based on the events that happen to my body who is moved by some mysterious ways by the evolution of our universe." If you're trying in some peculiarly unique way to assert that evolution - a biological process with no direct connection to the Universe - is a foolish belief, I wish you'd come out with it and say so. That's a separate topic.
Evolution is a fact, by the way.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
