(November 4, 2014 at 3:44 pm)His_Majesty Wrote:(November 3, 2014 at 11:58 am)Esquilax Wrote: I did, like two posts ago. Aren't you paying attention before you decide to disagree with me? It's a beneficial trait for organisms to be able to react to their environments more accurately over a wider range of stimuli.
Bullcrap. It would be a beneficial trait for me to evolve wings to be able to fly away from a bear in the woods as opposed to running from it, but I don’t have no damn wings, do I?
(November 3, 2014 at 11:58 am)Esquilax Wrote: Consciousness arose as an emergent property of that drive toward more complex reactive intellects, as a means to better react on the fly to more complicated scenarios. It's all tied in with the evolution of brains, as consciousness is a property that arises within the brain.
More bullcrap. This is all bio-babble. What the heck is “complex reactive intellects”, and who is directing the “drive” towards it? This is a prime example of putting words together to make it sound pretty when in actuality the answer that is given leaves you with more questions than answers. If the brain “evolved” like you claim it did, and if you are sitting there watching it evolve, please explain to me at what point would that brain begin thinking…and what is the mechanism needed for this to happen.
The brain is made up of matter. If you had a chunk of brain cartilage and you shaped and molded it into a brain, at what point would you get that brain to begin thinking of thoughts??
I will patiently wait for more bio-babble.
I am thoroughly enjoying Esquilax's dismantling of your arguments, but I had to jump in on this. You obviously have no idea how evolution works, and that is evidenced by your first claim above. Calling something bio-babble just because you don't understand it is an avoidance at best.
"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. "