Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?

[Neo-Scholastic]

So, the logical extension of two opposing positions is the same? That's illogical. ... "Only theism can lead to non-nihilism" is a corollary for "Atheism leads to nihilism". If you prove one, it means you've proven the other.

Not always. If I say that being imprisoned does not necessarily lead to boredom that doesn't mean that having liberty necessarily does.

I would argue that emergent properties would answer your objection….what you wrote actually supports what I'm saying: if something cannot be broken down into component processes, but is only present when all the processes are extant, and yet it is more than the sum of those processes, you have an emergent property. It is not "something out of nothing";…

Replace “god-did-it” with “emergent-property-did-it” and you can see that the proposed technical sounding mechanism only supplies a promissory note for a future solution that may or may not come.

… The idea of emergent property is that it cannot be broken down or applied to smaller parts. Meaning, brain as a whole can be the interpreter without being broken down into smaller ones.

I still don’t see from where you think the content of all the loops and swirls of a computational model come. In themselves the loops and swirls don’t have content.