(February 1, 2014 at 12:08 am)ChadWooters Wrote:(January 31, 2014 at 7:10 pm)rasetsu Wrote: If minds are a property of matter, is it still not possible for those minds, made of matter, to create purpose for things, solely as a function of their material mind's ability to conceive of something as "being for" something else?
I think you are begging the question by essentially asking if a mind made of matter could have mental properties (like create purpose and concieve things). If you could make a mind out of matter then sure. But can you actually make a mind out of just matter?
Interestingly it seems we each do just that. In the process of cell division from the point of conception each one of us did in fact assemble our bodies and brains, independently from our parents. Of course they provided the blueprints and the raw materials. But then, incredibly, each of our physical bodies is formed through processes which we are beginning to understand.
Of course our being able to assemble these bodies of ours does not depend on science. But science more and more is revealing how we do it. If anything can be called miraculous -as in jaw-droppingly amazing- this is it.
